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The Depository documents 3 techniques in Uganda; by risk level: 1 critically endangered, 2 endangered. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The stripping, boiling, and mallet-beating of inner bark from the mutuba tree (Ficus natalensis) into a soft, wide, cloth-like non-woven textile by the Baganda people of the Buganda Kingdom, southern Uganda -- a prehistoric technique…
The hand-digging of shaft holes and panning of alluvial gold by Karamojong and Turkana artisanal miners in the Rupa and Tapac sub-counties of Moroto District, Karamoja region, northeastern Uganda.
The carving of wooden drums from single logs, hollowed and finished with stretched cowhide, by craftsmen of Mpambire village, near Mukono, Uganda's most famous drum-making community.