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"Adire" traditional cloths in contemporary Nigeria : a semiotic analysis / by Kodilinye Owunna Igwe

Author:
Igwe, Kodilinye Owunna 1946-  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 213, [1] leaves : ill
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1988
1990
Topic:
Adire  Search this
Resist-dyed textiles  Search this
Textile fabrics  Search this
Textile design  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
Semiotics in art  Search this
Call number:
NK9504.7 .I24 1988a
NK9504.7.I24 1988a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_386717

"Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" : urban style, gender, and the politics of "national culture" in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Author:
Ivaska, Andrew M  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
Date:
2004
Topic:
Clothing and dress  Search this
Women's dress  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
GT1580 .F37 2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_758394

"High timers" in contemporary Ashanti : ambiguous boundaries between the ideal and notorious self / by Suzanne Gott

Author:
Gott, Suzanne  Search this
African Studies Association Annual Meeting (34th : 1991 : St. Louis, Mo.)  Search this
Physical description:
10 leaves ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Ghana
Ashanti Region
Ashanti Region (Ghana)
Date:
1991
[1991?]
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_443880

"Hippie" Dress or Shirt

Physical Description:
cotton (overall material)
metal (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
ink (overall material)
dye (overall material)
elastic (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: torso: 33 in x 25 in; 83.82 cm x 63.5 cm
overall: sleeves: 8 in x 24 in; 20.32 cm x 60.96 cm
Object Name:
shirt
Credit Line:
gift of Ruth McCully
ID Number:
2012.0059.10
Accession number:
2012.0059
Catalog number:
2012.0059.10
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Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
Food
FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
Clothing & Accessories
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-81e1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1418000

"I dress in this fashion" : women, the life-cycle, and the idea of SeSotho / by Deborah James

Author:
James, Deborah  Search this
Physical description:
35 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1992
[1992]
Topic:
Women, Sotho--Social life and customs  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Clothing and dress--Social aspects  Search this
Life cycle, Human--Social aspects  Search this
Call number:
GT1588 .J36 1992a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_501740

"I fastidiosi gusti delle donne africane" : aspetti della moda nell'Africa orientale del XIX secolo / Karin Pallaver

Author:
Pallaver, Karin  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Tanzania
Date:
2010
Topic:
Clothing and dress  Search this
Textile trade  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .A475
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1020685

"Leave velvet alone" : the adire tradition of the Yoruba

Author:
Wolff, Norma Hackleman 1933-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Nigeria, Western
Date:
2001
Topic:
Adire  Search this
Resist-dyed textiles  Search this
Clothing  Search this
Call number:
NK8889.6.N5 C56 2001
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_750510

"Leo Africanus" presents Africa to Europeans / Natalie Zemon Davis

Author:
Davis, Natalie Zemon 1928-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Leo Africanus approximately 1492-approximately 1550  Search this
Leo, Africanus approximately 1492-approximately 1550 Della descrittione dell'Africa  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Date:
2012
Early works to 1600
Topic:
Clothing and dress  Search this
Call number:
N8232 .R48 2012
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1013566

"Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" : nation, gender, and the politics of clothing in Nkrumah's Ghana

Author:
Allman, Jean Marie  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Kodjoe, Hannah  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Ghana
Date:
2004
Topic:
Nationalism and clothing  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
National dress  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Nudity  Search this
Call number:
GT1580 .F37 2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_758396

"Looking deeply on the way my mother does her beadwork" : conversations with three foremost Ndebele beadwork artists / Helene Smuts and Petrus Khobongo Mahlangu

Author:
Smuts, Helene  Search this
Mahlangu, Petrus Khobongo  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Mahlangu, Esther 1935-  Search this
Mnguni, Esther  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
South Africa
Date:
2015
Topic:
Women beadworkers  Search this
Ndebele beadworkers  Search this
Beadwork, Ndebele  Search this
Women, Ndebele--Clothing  Search this
Call number:
NK3650.5.A35 B43 2015
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1060882

"Should a good Muslim cover her face?" : pilgrimage, veiling, and fundamentalisms in Cameroon / José C. M. van Santen

Author:
Santen, José C. M. van  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Cameroon
Date:
2013
Topic:
Veils  Search this
Muslim women--Clothing  Search this
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages  Search this
Clothing and dress--Social aspects  Search this
Call number:
BP190.5.H44 V45 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1033201

"The King of England was their wall" : state and society during the early colonial period

Author:
Byfield, Judith A (Judith Ann-Marie)  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Abeokuta (Nigeria)
Date:
2002
Topic:
History  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Government relations  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Clothing  Search this
Commerce  Search this
Call number:
HD6073.D92 N69 2002
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_760936

"We grew up free but here we have to cover our faces" : veiling among Oromo refugees in Eastleigh, Kenya / Peri M. Klemm

Author:
Klemm, Peri M (Peri Marka)  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Kenya
Nairobi
Date:
2013
Topic:
Veils  Search this
Muslim women--Clothing  Search this
Women, Oromo--Clothing  Search this
Women refugees  Search this
Clothing  Search this
Call number:
BP190.5.H44 V45 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1033203

'The dearest thing on the East African coast' : the forgotten nineteenth-century trade in 'Muscat cloth' / Sarah Fee

Author:
Fee, Sarah 1963-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Oman
Indian Coast (East Africa)
Africa, East
Indian Coast (Africa)
Date:
2018
Topic:
Textile fabrics, Omani  Search this
Textile industry--History  Search this
Weaving  Search this
Textile design  Search this
Textile trade  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
Clothing  Search this
Clothing trade  Search this
Commerce  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
TS1402.9 .T49 2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1098789

(USO Monument), (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Fujioka, Kaneo  Search this
Horisawa, Kay  Search this
Medium:
Sculpture: concrete, partially painted; Base: concrete
Culture:
Japanese  Search this
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by Desha County Robert Moore Street, Desha County Courthouse Arkansas City Arkansas 71630
Located Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery West of Arkansas Highway 1 Rohwer Arkansas
Date:
1945. Dedicated Oct. 20, 1945
Topic:
History--United States--World War II  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Architecture--Vehicle--Tank  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Occupation--Military--Soldier  Search this
Dress--Uniform--Military Uniform  Search this
Animal--Bird--Eagle  Search this
Object--Other--Flag  Search this
Landscape--Celestial--Star  Search this
Control number:
IAS AR000272
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_334151

1. Côte D'Ivoire Agnibilécro - Kangah, Chef Agnis

Creator:
Jean Rose, Import-Export (Abidjan)  Search this
Kante, G.  Search this
Extent:
1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
Container:
Volume 1
Culture:
Anyi (African people)  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Place:
Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Date:
[ca. 1920]
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "1. Côte d'Ivoire; Agnibilécro - Kangah, Chef Agnis."
Translated postcard caption reads: "1. Côte D'Ivoire - Agnibilécro - Kangah, Anyi Leader."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Jean Rose, Import-Export, Abidjan," and "Cliché G. Kante."
Local Numbers:
EEPA IV-15-07
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Provenance:
JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Topic:
Leaders  Search this
Costume  Search this
Regalia  Search this
Clothing and dress -- Africa  Search this
Textile fabrics  Search this
Genre/Form:
Postcards
Collection Citation:
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA IV 1985-145017
See more items in:
African Postcard Collection
African Postcard Collection / Series 13: Cote d'Ivoire (IV)
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo7c033b563-772e-488a-9ac4-274cd9414590
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-eepa-1985-014-ref4933

100 years, Lagos fashion panorama : in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the creation of Lagos State / produced by Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture in collaboration with Ijinle Cultural Organization

Author:
Sonuba, Gbenga  Search this
Oyemade, Tunde  Search this
Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture  Search this
Ijinle Cultural Organization (Lagos, Nigeria)  Search this
Physical description:
14 p. ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria
Lagos
Date:
1987
[1987]
Topic:
Fashion  Search this
Costume  Search this
Clothing and dress  Search this
Call number:
TT504.6.N6 S69 1987
TT504.6.N6S69 1987
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_443623

16-band kusaibe gown, Bafodea Town, Sierra Leone

Photographer:
Ottenberg, Simon  Search this
Collection Photographer:
Ottenberg, Simon  Search this
Extent:
1 Slide (col.)
Culture:
Limba (African people)  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Slides
Color slides
Place:
Africa
Sierra Leone
Date:
1978-1980
Scope and Contents:
This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, while on an Art Historical and Anthropological Field Research from October of 1978 through July of 1980.
Original title reads, "At Bafodea Town. 16-band kusaibe shirt, European black and white, native white, bought in Kamanda Village (Mandia) where it was made." [Ottenberg field research notes, Limba Slides and Photographs, October 1978-July 1980].
Local Numbers:
2427/1978-1980
General:
Title source: Dr. Simon Ottenberg, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Other Archival Materials:
Simon Ottenberg Papers are located at the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Photographs by Pa Huff, Hamaidu Mansaray, and Labelle Prussin are restricted. In these cases, the photographer's permission is required for access and publication of images.
Topic:
Clothing and dress -- Africa  Search this
Genre/Form:
Color slides
Identifier:
EEPA.2005-001, Item EEPA 2005-0001-2408
See more items in:
Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples
Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples / Series 1: Limba Peoples, Sierra Leone and Guinea / 1.2: Field Research, Year Two / Bafodea Town, Sierra Leone
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-eepa-2005-001-ref4272

17. Grand Lahoue (Côte d'Ivoire) Appollonians

Creator:
Collection M. M. A. C. B.  Search this
Impriméries Réunies de Nancy  Search this
Extent:
1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
Container:
Volume 1
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Textiles
Place:
Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire -- Lagunes Region -- Grand-Lahou
Date:
[ca. 1912]
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "17. - Grand Lahoue (Côte d'Ivoire).- Appolloniens."
Translated caption reads: "17. - Grand Lahoue (Côte d'Ivoire).- Appollonians."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Collection M. M. A. C. B." Publisher's logo on recto: "Impr. Réunies de Nancy."
Postmarked postage stamp on recto. Postmark and manuscript address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA IV-15-02
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Provenance:
JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Topic:
Leaders  Search this
Portrait photography -- Africa  Search this
Costume  Search this
Clothing and dress -- Africa  Search this
Genre/Form:
Textiles
Postcards
Collection Citation:
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA IV 1985-145020
See more items in:
African Postcard Collection
African Postcard Collection / Series 13: Cote d'Ivoire (IV)
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo705b51ab5-b577-423e-ac1c-8f382f55cc77
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-eepa-1985-014-ref4936

52 days to Timbuktu (62 days to Rabat)

Title:
Fifty-two days Timbuktu
Author:
McCarren, Felicia M  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Morocco
Zagora (Morocco)
Date:
2009
Topic:
Sahrawi (African people)--Ethnic identity  Search this
Sahrawi (African people)--Clothing  Search this
Self-presentation  Search this
Culture and globalization  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
N7380 .C758
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_946897

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