10 November 2020
Clothing a Tradition: Endangered Tibetan Material Knowledge in Exile
Venerable Phuntsok Tsering, is the Nabza’ Chenmo, or the Dalai Lama’s personal tailor. Since 1959, he has been responsible for […]
10 November 2020
Venerable Phuntsok Tsering, is the Nabza’ Chenmo, or the Dalai Lama’s personal tailor. Since 1959, he has been responsible for […]
10 November 2020
This project will document the material processes and technical knowledge through which Guarani and Kaiowá ceremonial houses (Oga Pysy) are constructed, the local […]
10 November 2020
This project seeks to document the knowledge, skills and practices of traditional dry-stone masonry at Great Zimbabwe, southern Zimbabwe. Once […]
10 November 2020
The baobab tree is surrounded by a rich foodway culture among the Mijikenda of coastal Kenya. The leaves are a […]
10 November 2020
This project will document the production, uses and cultural significance of the Zande ‘gugu‘ (slit drum or gong) in South […]
10 November 2020
This regional scale project seeks to produce photographic, audio, video, and descriptive record of the material knowledge of the potters […]
10 November 2020
The Ende tribe of Western Province, Papua New Guinea possess and make use of a huge trove of knowledge about […]
10 November 2020
Until recent decades, daily life in Banda, Ghana was configured through earthen and organic technologies ranging from woven mats on […]
10 November 2020
This project aims to document textile production and use in Souss-Massa, southern Morocco, where women have long produced textiles for both […]
10 November 2020
In Vietnam, the production of pottery vessels has undergone many changes over the last thirty years, due to the economic […]
10 November 2020
Until the nineteenth century, nearly all forms of clothing used across the Kalahari were derived from animals. Precolonial trade in […]
10 November 2020
In Somaliland, the camel is the iconic animal. It is bred and kept as economic capital, used for social transactions, […]
10 November 2020
This project sets out to document the chaîne opératoire of Oromo pottery spanning from the learning network to the production […]
10 November 2020
Bark fibre was, until the early 20th century, the traditional material for making clothing and containers among communities in northern […]
10 November 2020
This project will use video clips, audio files, photographs, and field notes to document the manufacture, use of ostrich eggshell […]
10 November 2020
The women of Wanigela, Collingwood Bay, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea are known in the region for making distinctive cooking pots which are exchanged, one for one, for netbags, barkcloth and mats in long standing regional networks. Using […]
15 October 2019
The project aims primarily at documenting cotton cloth production in North Benin, from cotton growing activities to thread production (ginning, […]
15 October 2019
In the islands of Melanesia, people have developed extremely complex value and exchange systems that seem to work like currencies. […]
15 October 2019
This project will translate, record, articulate, preserve, and disseminate craft knowledge related to paper clothing (kamiko) made from sheets of […]
15 October 2019
The traditional natural broom and fibre rope crafts of the Urhobo people of Nigeria are highly endangered by the introduction […]
15 October 2019
Fewer than ten living instrument-makers of the mouth harp angkuoch are known across Cambodia, and the process of making the instrument […]
15 October 2019
The borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia has historically been a refuge to an extraordinary diversity of indigenous groups that still […]
15 October 2019
Reed, a comb-like element of a weaving loom which is responsible for separating warp and beating weft yarn, is one […]
15 October 2019
The Batek are hunter-gatherers who dwell in lowland rainforest across the states of Terengganu, Kelantan, and Pahang in Peninsular Malaysia, […]
15 October 2019
This research aims to document technological aspects of Bidayuh, Iban and Penan native blades and, changes occurring with them. A […]
15 October 2019
This project aims to document the dwindling practice of beekeeping amongst the Sengwer communities living in the Embobut Forest, western […]
15 October 2019
We will study, document and digitize over a period of one year, from September 1, 2019 to August 21, 2020, […]
15 October 2019
For centuries, Indigenous wild silks have been traded across West Africa and used in Marka-Dafing’s textiles production in the Mouhoun […]
1 October 2019
This project aims to digitize the glass bead making process in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria, in order to produce a digital […]
30 September 2019
The Upper Xingu (Mato Grosso, Brazil) is an area of exceptional ecological, socio-historical and cultural diversity in Amazonia, which is […]
27 September 2019
Asapan, the initiation ceremony of the pastoral-nomadic Turkana of northern Kenya, is a ceremony that draws together an extraordinary array […]