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The Depository documents 6 techniques in Angola; by risk level: 2 critically endangered, 3 endangered, 1 thriving. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The carving of wooden Mwana Pwo masks and seated ancestor-figure statues (popularly known by their Portuguese name, O Pensador, 'The Thinker') by the Chokwe people of northeastern Angola, extending into the southern Democratic Republic of…
The tracing of one-stroke geometric figures on smoothed sand or ash by the Lunda Cokwe (Chokwe) and neighboring peoples of eastern Angola, using a matrix of dots pressed into the surface as fixed anchor points around which the drawing's…
The preparation of funge, Angola's national staple dish, a smooth, dense, stretchy porridge made by gradually whisking cassava flour (or, in some regional and family variants, cornmeal or millet flour) into boiling salted water.
The coiled construction of flat basketry plaques and vessels by Ovimbundu women of the Benguela Highlands, central Angola, directly photographed in progress by Field Museum anthropologist Wilfrid D.
The hand-building of earthenware vessels by Ovimbundu women of the Benguela Highlands, central Angola, documented in direct sequential field photography by Field Museum anthropologist Wilfrid D.
The smelting and forging of iron by Ovimbundu blacksmiths of the Benguela Highlands, central Angola, documented in exceptional ethnographic detail by Field Museum anthropologist Wilfrid D.