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.

Fronds of coconut palm leaves come alive at John Baby’s nimble fingers. With a twist here, a snip there and a piece of coconut rib to hold the fronds in place, the leaves turn into birds, fish, snakes ...

BULAKAN, BULACAN — “Puni,” the art of making decorations out of leaves, straw and colored and glossy pages of magazines, is turning palm fronds, which will be blessed in Catholic churches on Palm ...

CHamoru coconut-woven pouch used to cook rice, during a workshop offered at the University of Guam’s Guam Green Growth Circular Economy Makerspace and Innovation Hub in Hagåtña on March 20, 2025.