10 November 2020
Documenting Knowledge, Skills, and Practices of Dry-Stone Masonry at Great Zimbabwe
This project seeks to document the knowledge, skills and practices of traditional dry-stone masonry at Great Zimbabwe, southern Zimbabwe. Once […]
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
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
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 […]
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
The traditional natural broom and fibre rope crafts of the Urhobo people of Nigeria are highly endangered by the introduction […]
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
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 […]
27 September 2019
Asapan, the initiation ceremony of the pastoral-nomadic Turkana of northern Kenya, is a ceremony that draws together an extraordinary array […]