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Humus

Dig down far enough and you reach humus — the Latin word for soil, and the root of two others: human and humble. A look at the crafts that are, quite literally, earth shaped by hand: Longpi clay from Manipur, Bolga grass from Ghana, and what they remember about where we come from.

Two cupped hands lifting dark, crumbly soil from a plowed field and letting it sift through the fingers.

Cast Once

Dhokra is a 4,000-year-old metal craft from Bastar, where the Ghadwa community melts scrap into bell metal using the lost-wax method. The design is built in wax, wound thread by thread around a clay core, then fired so the wax drains out and the metal takes its place. The mold breaks to free each piece — and can't be used twice.

Longpi: The Pottery That Never Touches a Wheel

No wheel. No kiln. In the hills of northeast India, the Tangkhul Naga shape each pot by hand and fire it black in an open flame — the same way for generations.

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Humus

Cast Once

Longpi: The Pottery That Never Touches a Wheel