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Side view illustration of cowboy on horse
American cowboy
Side view of a red lawn mower.
Lawn Mower
One of the oldest handcrafts of African origin in the United States is the hand-woven winnowing sieve, a shallow basket that was used during the Colonia Era to separate the rice seed from its chaff. Made from indigenous bulrush, sweetgrass is a strong yet supple marsh grass that thrives in the sandy soil of the coastal regions of the US South Atlantic.
Gullah sweetgrass basket
An above view of the square blue house, shows two of the structures walls and three side of the yellow pyramid roof. The house is elevated on stilts and has a set of stairs that lead up to the front entrance.
Fale: enclosed 4 (Samoa)
Illustration of the UK flag.
Flag: United Kingdom
Illustration of the flag for the United States of America
Flag: United States of America
This symbol shows a flattened view of the official flag of Hawaii. The flag comprises of red, white, and blue stripes and includes the British flag in the top left-hand corner.
Flag: USA Hawaii
A side view of a three dimensional headdress colored yellow, red, and orange.
Hawaiian Royalty Headdress
A stylized red hibiscus flower with an orange style protruding from the center of the flower. The hibiscus is the state flower of Hawaii.
Hibiscus Flower
A stylized Hi'a Lehua flower shows the green leaves and base and long, upward reaching red petals.
Metrosideros Polymorpha (Hi'a Lehua)
Illustration of Australian flag
Flag: Australia
Illustration of Queensland flag
Flag: Australia Queensland
Illustration of cultural Odisha graphics associated with the east coast of India.
Cultural Odisha graphics
Building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.
French Quarter, New Orleans
Illustration of a musical note known as a double quaver, or two eighth notes beamed together. An eighth note or quaver is a musical note played for one eighth of the duration of whole note.
Music: eighth notes 2
Illustration of a dollar or peso sign ($), which is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various peso and dollar units of currency around the world.
Currency: dollar sign
Illustration of a fale.
Fale 6 (Samoa)
Illustration of a Fale damaged by a tsunami.
Fale: Tsunami damaged (Samoa)
Illustration of a Palagi (foreigner) house in Samoa. This style of housing is usually enclosed, built of concrete bricks and a corrugated iron roof.
Palagi house (Samoa)
Enclosed fale (Samoan house) with pandanus leaves drying out front, which are used for weaving.
Enclosed fale with drying pandanus leaves
Fancy fale and gardens in Samoa, on the north-west coast of Upolu.
Samoan fale
Steps cut in coconut palm for easy harvesting, on the northwest coast of Upolu, Samoa.
Steps cut in coconut palm
fale
Fale 3 (Samoa)
fale.
Fale 4 (Samoa)
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