Baganda Barkcloth (Olubugo)
Olubugo is the barkcloth of the Baganda of Uganda, made by stripping the inner bark of the mutuba fig tree and beating it with wooden mallets until it becomes a soft, pliable, chestnut-brown textile. The craft is usually practised by men, who peel the bark in the wet season and beat it on a log, folding and turning the sheet until it reaches the desired fineness, and a single tree can be harvested again and again. In the Buganda kingdom, barkcloth was the dress of kings and chiefs, worn in layers that grew thicker with rank, and it was also used in burial, wrapping the dead and lining the roya