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Aronson, Lisa,  "Threads of time in West Africa".  Online review of Kriger's Cloth in West African History on H-AfrArts, February 17, 2007.

-- "The Language of West African Textiles."  African Arts, Vol. 25 No. 3 (July 1992), 36-41.

-- "Ijebu Yoruba and aso olona."  African Arts, Vol. 25 No. 3 (July 1992), 52-64.

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Blier, Suzanne Preston, "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492." The Art Bulletin, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), 375-396. 

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-- The Quilt Detective: Clues in Pattern, 2007, digital newsletter, No. 30 postscript, September 30, 2007.

Brett-Smith, Sarah, "Textiles Bogolan du Mali:  a response."  African arts, Vol. 25 No. 3, July 1992, 89-91. 

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Ekpo, Ikwo A., "Ekpe Costumes of the Cross River."  African Arts, Vol. 12, No. 1 (November 1978),  73-108.

Elliot, G.F. Scott, "Some notes on native West African customs." The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 23 (1894), 80-83.

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Illiffe, John, Honour in African History. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004. 

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Kraamer, Malika, "Ghanaian interweaving in the nineteenth century:  a new perspective on Ewe and Asante textile history."  African Arts (Winter 2006),  37-53.

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Lamb, Venice, West African Weaving. London: Duckworth, 1975.

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--  "Power, cloth and currency on the Loango coast." African Economic History, No. 15 (1986), 1-12.

Metcalf, George, "A microcosm of why Africans sold slaves:  Akan consumption patterns in the 1770s."  Journal of African History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (1987), 377-394.

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Park, Mungo, and John Whishaw. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa In the Year 1805. Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle. William Fry, printer, 1815.

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