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Like people everywhere, African artists adjusted to their changing environments whether it was they themselves who had moved, or the conditions of their surroundings had been altered. Among the changes which effected the Makonde in the 20th century w..
The Iraqw are a farming people in northern Tanzania. They are one of a few Cushitic cultures in the region, with a language unrelated to any other in Tanzania. Girls reportedly fabricate leather skirts for themselves during a period of seclusion prio..
A well balanced and finely rendered headrest from the Dinka of southern sudan. 11? long. Decades of civil war in the Sudan prevented the region’s ethnographic riches from reaching the western market until the mid 1990s when a political thaw in the co..
Coil-sewn baskets (agaseki) with conical lids were made by Tutsi women of the aristocracy. The fine coil sewing and the precisely worked-out spiral patterns, many of which have names, were time-consuming and called for exact calculations in the stitc..
The Azande were prolific potters for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the 19th century. Their lands in the transition zone between the Congo basin and the upper Nile made them middle men between Arab traders from the north with their bead..
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