Lying off Estonia's Baltic coast, the small islands of Kihnu and Manija are home to a community of 600 people whose cultural expressions and agricultural traditions have been kept alive over the centuries largely thanks to the island's female population. Since the island's initial settlement, the men of the Kihnu community have taken to the sea to hunt seals and fish, while the women have remained on the islands to farm and maintain the household. During the long absences of their husbands, sons and brothers, Kihnu women became the principal guardians of the cultural traditions embodied in numerous songs, games, dances, wedding ceremonies and handicrafts transmitted orally from generation to generation.
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