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Mesoamerican and South American festival
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traditional festival in Algemesí, Spain
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handmade, hard bar soap associated with the city of Aleppo, Syria
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traditional felted textile of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
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Arab dish made with wheat grain, meat and butter
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no description
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Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Japan
collection of melodic figures in Persian music
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type of wooden xylophone originating in Mali
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worship of water oracles and associated cultural traditions among the Sawa
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Ghanaian fabric made of strips that are woven from silk, cotton or rayon using horizontal looms
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earthenware vessel for creating wine
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no description
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serving and drinking customs of Arabic coffee
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National List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Iraq
human tower, UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in Catalonia
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the whole of both the variety of beer types and the method of brewing in Belgium.
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Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brussels
Crimean Tatar ornament
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Chinese art of cutting a pattern into the bottom face of a seal, for stamping
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type of Southeast Asian dance where both females and males dance in a circle
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no description
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folk music genre from Northeast Argentina and Argentinian Mesopotamia
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no description
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Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Japan
folk marche from Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse
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theatre from South East Asia
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Bowed string instrument of Iranian origin used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument
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Sudanese-Egyptian stringed musical instrument
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Korean Buddhist celebration of Buddha's sermon on Vulture Peak mountain
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Indonesian ancient performance and dance tradition that is part of the religious and artistic expression among the Balinese people of Bali island
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style of traditional music originated in the island of Java in Indonesia
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no description
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hunting with a trained bird of prey
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Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brussels
Traditional national Hutsul handicrafts, one of the varieties of Ukrainian ceramics
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National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ukraine
traditions of the Catholic Suiti community in the Protestant (Lutheran) western part of Latvia – inscribed in the List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2009
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form of oral strophic poetry
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music genre originating in the Dominican Republic
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classical theatre of Tibet
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song form of the P’urhépecha (Michoacán, Mexico) related to the son and the waltz.
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lantern lightening festival in Korea celebrating the Buddha's Birthday
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Tongan national group dance of estades unides
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Korean lyric song cycles accompanied by an orchestra
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Lithuanian polyphonic folk song
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Russian Religious Group
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classical Japanese musical drama. "Nohgaku" conclude Noh, Kyōgen and etc.
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use of tea in China, i.e. how the tea is prepared as well as how people consume it
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a traditional South Slavic collective folk dance performed by dancers linked in a chain, usually forming a circle; it is performed to musical accompaniment at private and public gatherings
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Croatian musical form from Slavonia
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improvising poets and singers in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz cultures
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Cambodian martial arts
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Argentinian tradition of embellishment
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no description
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intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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Transition ritual in the Flemish city of Leuven to celebrate the 50th anniversary
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type of dance
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características de su cultura
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performing art originating from Malaysia
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philippine tradition
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poetic and melancholic Romanian folk song
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The mask dance of the Drametse community is a sacred dance performed during the Drametse festival in honour of Padmasambhava, a Buddhist guru. Inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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Koɔbo yeltare naŋ be Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
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Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Japan
Croatian equestrian competition held annually in Sinj, Croatia
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popular arts on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism
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style of singing
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music genre
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song competition between two aqyns, traditional Kazakh and Kyrgyz singers
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traditional Turkmen and Khorasani musicians
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Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Yemen, inscribed in 2008
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type of decorated ceramic
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communal celebration in Malta
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type of dance
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