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With both hands, he scrapes the bark of the tree as he quickly collects the peelings. He does so with precision, cautious that his mentor is looking on. As Paul Bukenya Katamira supervises the mentee, he calls on another to find out if the water he is boiling is ready so they can boil the tree bark material. In an adjacent house shell, another student is beating a stretched-out material with a ridged hammer which, as I learn, from Bukenya is one of the processes in the illustrious process of making bark cloth, a tradition that has run in his family for more than 100 years. Bukenya’s dream It i…