All traditions
2,291 traditions so far, best known first. 12,311 more are on the list to be written. Filter by region, kind and meal.
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🇵🇦 Panama City, PanamaMola
Layered cloth panels hand-sewn by Guna women using reverse appliquéCraft
🇵🇾 Asunción, ParaguayÑandutí
Paraguayan needle lace named for a spider's web, worked in thread and cut freeCraft
🇵🇦 Las Tablas, Panama and 2 morePollera
A handmade skirt and outfit worn in Panama, Bolivia and Peru, and a marker of identityDress
🇵🇪 Peru and 1 moreChulloch'ullu
An earflapped Andean hat in alpaca or llama wool, worn against the coldDress
🇧🇸 Bahamas and 3 moreJunkanoo
A Caribbean masquerade festival of masked dancing, goatskin drumming, and cowbellsFestival
🇨🇱 ChileChupalla
The straw hat of the Chilean horseman, worn for the cueca and the rodeoDress
🇨🇱 ChileChilote ponchoPoncho chilote
A thick, striped wool poncho crafted in the cold and rainy Chiloé ArchipelagoDress
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ñandutí: Trey Jones, Public domain, source
- Mola: Johantheghost, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chupalla: Flavio Bastos Amiel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Junkanoo: WikiPedant, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pollera: Pedro Szekely, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chullo: El archivo fue elegido de manera aleatoria sin uso necesario de su lic, Public domain, source