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The Charles Cady letters were written during his service in the Civil War. Included are the letters he wrote to his parents, brother, and sister living at home in Danville, Des Moines County, Iowa. He discussed army life, talked of casualties and...
Traditional Mossi society is composed of two important strata. A political elite called nakomse is descended from the mounted warriors who subjugated the original agriculturalist populations of the White Volta River basin at the end of the...
This is a particularly elaborate version of the Mossi girls¹ doll called biiga. Like all such dolls, it displays the marks of adult female beauty, including scars on the abdomen that indicate she has born her first child. The elongated breasts...
This is a particularly elaborate version of the Mossi girls¹ doll called biiga. Like all such dolls, it displays the marks of adult female beauty, including scars on the abdomen that indicate she has born her first child. The elongated breasts...
This type of mask which is both totemic and ancestral is used by the nyonyose clans of Mossi society. It represents a being who plays an important role in the myth of the founding of the particular clan that owns the mask and serves as a physical...