Chapter III — Artisan Census 03 / 08
The Kupesi Project · Key Finding

The cloth endures.
The hands that make it do not.

Active Bark-Cloth Practitioners
Historical count Current decade
1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 842 691 483 347 238 156 −81% since 1970
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