The Wayuu are from NE Columbia/NW Venezuela on the Guajira Peninsula. They learned to weave from a female ancestor who learned from a spider. Their string figures tell of this story as well as other arts taught to this woman. The Wayuu were one of 4 indigenous peoples from Columbia whose languages are endangered that performed and shared their language and arts at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. The theme was "One World, Many Voices" and we Hawaiians were also represented.