Long before plastic fishnets, electric rice cookers or designer hats found their way to Guam, islanders were using fish traps, rice pouches and hats made of coconut leaves in their everyday lives.
When Joe “Dågu” Babauta saw “Tan Maria” weaving a hat out of coconut leaves at 12 years old, his lifelong love affair with the art of weaving began. “Being that I was so young, I had to ask older ...