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- This type of mask, called kouassi gbe or kple kple is one of a pair of identical masks which represent the junior male persona of the goli dance (Vogel 1978). The mask is held firmly against the wearer¹s face by a bar of wood which he clamps...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- Baule figures may serve as resting places for nature spirits (asie usu) and spirit spouses (blolo bian), Both types of spirits must be offered figures of beautiful human beings or they will refuse to reside within a figure. Only the handling of a...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- Guinea Coast Based on a report published at the turn of the century (Delafosse 1900: 443) that beautifully carved ³human figures are placed on the tomb or grave of the deceased or even in the tomb, so that the spirit may find a place of repose,²...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Portrait Mask
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Portrait Mask
- Small Baule face masks such as this one (and its female counterpart, not exhibited) are worn in Goli dances which the Baule borrowed from their Mandé speaking neighbors the Wan. These are entertainment dances to celebrate harvests, and the visits...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Monkey Figure
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Comb
- Elaborately carved wooden combs are presented to Baule women by their male relatives or friends to commemorate important events, including puberty rites, weddings, and births. The imagery of the gift may refer to the closeness and warmth of a...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure, Couple
- The Baule carve two important types of anthropomorphic figures: "spirit spouses" represent the ³spouse² that everyone had in the other world before he or she was born into this one," and may be either male or female. "Other figures, less...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- The Baule produce a range of very distinctive mask types. The fact that they are the only Akan group to use masks leads to speculation that they may have adopted and adapted the masks of several of their neighbors. This Baule version of the...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- International authors: 1989-2009, Iowa City Public Library, October 9, 2009
- South African author Maxine Case discusses Miriam Tlali and Bessie Head, two former South African women IWP participants. She then gives a brief history of apartheid and closes by stating that she is grateful for the efforts of authors such Tlali...
- Virtual Writing University Archive
- "Exploitation of children," February 27, 1967
- Hispanic Americans
- Newspaper editorial about child labor law for migrant children.
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection
- "Protecting migrant children," May 7, 1967
- Hispanic Americans
- Newspaper clipping about child labor law for migrant children.
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection
- Notice of grant approval, July 3, 1965
- Economic assistance, Domestic; Hispanic Americans
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection
- Congratulations telegram, March 4, 1966
- Hispanic Americans
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection
- Newspaper clippings from migrant worker scrapbook, 1967
- Hispanic Americans
- Newspaper clippings from a scrapbook on migrants put together by Shirley Sandage in the 1960s.
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection
- "Migrant housing improves," 1960s
- Hispanic Americans
- Clipping from unknown newspaper, part of a series about the Migrant Action Program in Mason City, Iowa.
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection
- Writing for an age of migration, diaspora, exile, part 2, Iowa City Public Library, October 5, 2007
- Kavery Nambisan describes the migrant writer's thought-space, not losing rootedness whether traveling in the real or in the imagination. Saša Stanišić's talk is titled, "How You See Us: on Three Myths about Migrant Writing," and covers the myth...
- Virtual Writing University Archive
- Virginia and Julia Guzman in kitchen, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, 1960s
- Hispanic Americans
- Girl watches grandmother prepare dinner.
- Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection

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