The borders are still marked with bark cloth trees ( " Ficus natalensis " ), which have protected it from the low-rise residential development that now surround the site on all sides.
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There are two sets, hand-painted on hand-made bark cloth, that are still owned by families who have inherited them from many generations ago, in Pacitan and Wonogiri, both villages in Central Java.
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One such is that the Gomesi existed long before the missionaries and Indians came to Uganda, however, the missionaries introduced the use of cotton instead of the bark cloth, from which the Gomesi was originally made.
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It was from the Kamasan village where artists were traditionally recruited to produce classical-style paintings on cloth ( or bark cloth ) for religious and ceremonial use as well as to decorate the palaces and temples.
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Gone are the generations that presumed Ugandans to be naive and too ignorant to know what they really need and want yet they were for centuries not naked but decently dressed in bark cloth ( embugo ) a cloth to this day too expensive to be afforded.
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Maya codices ( singular codex ) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth, Amatl, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or Amate ( Ficus glabrata; a synonym of the Ficus insipida ).
