Traditional Skills

Kosraean culture is modern, alive and dynamic - but traditional skills are treasured and passed to younger generations.

Here are some photos of skilled practitioners in a few of these skills. More photos will be added as they become available.

The tok, made of basalt rock, is the extremely heavy pounder used for making fafa from soft taro, or kutak.

Lonno Joe, one of the highly trained fafa makers, is preparing the traditional sweet.

Deckla Abraham and Litakua Paul are respected weavers.

Kenye Kephas is another of Kosrae's famous weavers.

Austin Jonas, a noted wood worker, is polishing a model tok, the fafa pounder at the top of the page.