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My birthplace, ethnicity, and parents / Fatima Massaquoi

Author:
Massaquoi, Fatima 1904?-1978  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Massaquoi, Fatima 1904?-1978 Family  Search this
Massaquoi, Momolu 1870?-1938  Search this
Massaquoi family  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
2013
Topic:
Vai families  Search this
Kings and rulers  Search this
Call number:
DT630.5.V2 M37 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1054812
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The Kquoja kingdom : a forest state in seventeenth century West Africa

Author:
Jones, Adam 1950-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Dapper, Olfert 1635 or 1636-1689  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Date:
1983
17th century
Topic:
History  Search this
Call number:
CB3 .P142
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_493261
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The Vais : a West African tribe

Author:
Rashad, Adib 1942-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1985
Topic:
Val language  Search this
Call number:
DT1.A1 A28
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_489392
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Landsman : the conversations of Bai T. Moore / Diane Oyler and Arnold Odio

Author:
Oyler, Dianne White  Search this
Odio, Arnold  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Moore, Bai T. 1916-1988  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1990
Call number:
DT621 .L695
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_493042
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Vai women's roles in music, masking, and ritual performance

Author:
Monts, Lester Parker  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1989
Topic:
Music  Search this
Women, Vai  Search this
Vai performance  Search this
Call number:
ML3797.1 .A36 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_493733
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The Cassava-leaf people: an ethnohistorical study of the Vai people with a particular emphasis on the Tewo chiefdom

Author:
Holsoe, Svend E  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 289 . maps, port
Type:
Books
Place:
Liberia
Date:
1993
1967
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Call number:
DT630.5.V2 H75 1967a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_457053
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Dance in the Vai Sande Society

Author:
Monts, Lester Parker  Search this
Subject:
Sande Society  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1984
Topic:
Vai dance  Search this
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Call number:
N1 .A258
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_493777
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Protectorate Government and African resistance in north-western Liberia : case studies of the Dei and Vai, 1822-1882 / Monday B. Akpan

Author:
Abasiattai, Monday B  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Date:
1980
19th century
Topic:
Government, Resistance to  Search this
Government relations  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
DT516.5 .H57X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_810588
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Music clusteral relationships in a Liberian-Sierra Leonean region : a preliminary analysis / Lester P. Monts

Author:
Monts, Lester Parker  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Poro (Society)  Search this
Sande Society  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Date:
1982
Topic:
Music  Search this
Musical instruments  Search this
Songs  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .J8585
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_761714
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Zolu Duma, ruler of the Southern Vai, 17??-1828 : a problem in historical interpretation

Author:
Holsoe, Svend E  Search this
Subject:
Duma, Zolu d. 1827  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Date:
2001
Topic:
Kings and rulers  Search this
Commerce--History  Search this
Commerce  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
DT621 .L695
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_751657
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Ritual, lore, and music in the pre-Islamic Vai funerary sequence

Author:
Monts, Lester Parker  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1999
Topic:
Death  Search this
Funeral customs and rites  Search this
Songs, Vai  Search this
Call number:
ML141.L7 U557 1999
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_756779
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Political and social conditions / Johann Büttikofer

Author:
Büttikofer, Johann 1850-1927  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Date:
2013
Topic:
Ethnic groups  Search this
Chiefdoms  Search this
Military art and science  Search this
Kings and rulers  Search this
Call number:
DT625 .B94 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1035415
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Further adventures : return to Europe / Johann Büttikofer

Author:
Büttikofer, Johann 1850-1927  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
2013
Call number:
DT625 .B94 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1035406
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Notes on the Vai Sande society in Liberia / Svend E. Holsoe

Author:
Holsoe, Svend E  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Sande Society  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Date:
1980
Topic:
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Vai women's initiation  Search this
Women, Vai  Search this
Vai masquerades  Search this
Call number:
GN1 .E846
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_693199
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Islam in Liberia / Lester P. Monts

Author:
Monts, Lester Parker  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Poro (Society) Islamic influences  Search this
Sande Society Islamic influences  Search this
Type:
Books
Place:
Liberia
Bulumi
Bulumi (Liberia)
Date:
1998
Topic:
Music  Search this
Islamic music  Search this
Islam  Search this
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Muslims  Search this
Religious life and customs  Search this
Call number:
ML101.A35 G37 1998
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_666432
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The dynamics of Liberian Vai culture and Islam

Author:
Holsoe, Svend E  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Date:
1987
Topic:
Muslims  Search this
Call number:
DT621 .L695
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_534202
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Chiefdom and clan maps of western Liberia / Svend E. Holsoe, Warren L. d'Azevedo & John H. Gay

Author:
Holsoe, Svend E  Search this
D'Azevedo, Warren L  Search this
Gay, John H  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Maps
Place:
Liberia
Date:
1969
Topic:
Politics and government  Search this
Maps  Search this
Ethnology--Maps  Search this
Call number:
DT621 .L695
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_534428
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Problems of Vai identity in terms of my own experience

Author:
Moore, Bai T. 1916-1988  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
1990
Topic:
Ethnic identity  Search this
Call number:
DT621 .L695
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_542187
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Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. Introd. by Frederick Starr. New York, Neale Pub. Co., 1914

Author:
Ellis, George Washington 1875-1919  Search this
Physical description:
290 p. illus. 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1970
1914
[1970]
Topic:
Folklore, Vai  Search this
Vai language  Search this
Call number:
DT630.5.V2 E47 1970
DT630.5.V2E47 1970
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_53512
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Who were the Vai? / Adam Jones

Author:
Jones, Adam 1950-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Date:
1981
Topic:
History  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Mande languages  Search this
Vai language  Search this
Historical linguistics  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .J858
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_599440

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