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Visual systems before colonial rule
Coastal contact and transcultural exchange, c. 1471–1874
Colonial print and institutional design, 1874–1945
Anticolonial and independence visual culture, 1945–1966
Post-independence public and popular graphics, 1966–1992
Democratic, digital and diasporic design, 1992–present
Land, cosmology and authority
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Adinkra stamped cloth tradition
Image · UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — Adinkra (related Akan traditions)
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Raffia Cloth; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kuba people; early 20th century; Raffia
Image · 1950 · Wikimedia Commons
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Raffia cloth, Kuba kingdom, c. 1909, HMA
Image · 1909 · Wikimedia Commons
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Book · 1989
Traumzeichen
Georges Meurant
F. Jahn
1989
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Raffia Cloth; Kuba people; plain weave and appliqué, early 20th century,Honolulu Academy of Arts
Image · 1950 · Wikimedia Commons
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3 Forschungskontext Kuba
Mediation auf Kuba
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The artist project
Book · 2017 · Open Library
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Kuba textile, Congo
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Adinkra Cloth — Stamped Mourning Textile
Image · Smithsonian Open Access — National Museum of African Art
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Kuba cloth in brown, red, and black with patchwork abstract design and red border
Digital Repository Service (Northeastern University)
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Kuba skirt (2)
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Man's status cloth, Shoowa people, early 20th century, raffia palm fiber, plain weave, cut-pile embroidery, HMA
Image · 1950 · Wikimedia Commons
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Article · 1996
The social and political implications of the Kuba cloths from Zaire
Joanne Glazer
Unisa Institutional Repository (University of South Africa)
1996
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Chapter · 2011
Die Entwicklung der Wirtschaft in Kuba
Elmar Kulke
Kuba
2011
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Article · 2004
Textiles, Patterns and Technology: Digital Tools for the Geometric Analysis of Cloth and Culture
Sushil Bhakar, Cheryl Kolak Dudek
TEXTILE
2004
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Kuba skirt (1)
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Style, classification, and ethnicity
Book · 1990 · Open Library
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Kuba cloth
Image · 1917 · Wikimedia Commons
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Article · 1978
Kuba Embroidered Cloth
Monni Adams
African Arts
1978
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