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"Afro-Portuguese Ivories," in Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture edited by Doran H. Ross, pp. 292-293. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.

Akar, John. "The Arts in Sierra Leone." Sierra Leone Review (Washington, DC) 1, no. 1 (Winter 1992): pp. 94-99.

Art from Sierra Leone: 7th July-4th August 1990. Hull, England: Hull City Council, 1990.

Banton, Michael. West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown. London: Oxford University Press, 1957.

Bender, Wolfgand. "From God to Man: Wandmalerei in Sierra Leone (West-Afrika)." Ika: Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch & Kulturkalender “Dritte Welt” (Hamburg) 41 (Feb. 1991): pp. 22-24.

See Blier. "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492."

Edwards, Joanna P. "The Sociological Significance and Uses of Mende Country Cloth," in History, Design, and Craft in West African Strip-Woven Cloth: Papers Presented at a Symposium Organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988, pp. 133-168. Washington, DC: The National Museum of African Art, 1992.

Gottschalk, Burkhard. Bundu: Buschteufel im Land der Mende. Düsseldorf: U. Gottschalk, 1990.

Gottschalk, Burkhard. Bundu: Bush-Devils in the Land of the Mende. Düsseldorf: U. Gottschalk, 1992. [Reviewed by Ruth B. Phillips in African Arts (Los Angeles) 27, no. 2 (April 1994) pp. 20, 22-24, 92; Response by Burkhard Gottschalk, “An Open Letter to Ruth Phillips on the Review of Bundu: Bush-Devils in the Land of the Mende (1992),” in African Art (Los Angeles) 29, no. 1 (Winter 1995): pp. 11-12, 14.]

Hart, W. A. "Aron Arabai: The Temne Mask of Chieftaincy." African Arts (Los Angeles) 19, no. 2 (1986): pp. 41-5.

Hart, W. A. "A Rediscovered Afro-Portuguese Horn in the British Museum (Research Note)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 4 (October 1993): pp. 70-1, 87-8.

Hart, W. A. "Sculptures of the Njayei Society Among the Mende." African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 46-53, 86.

See Ivory: An International History and Illustrated Survey.

See Jedrej. "A Comparison of Some Masks from North America, Africa, and Melanesia."

Jedrej, M.C. "A Comparison of Some Masks from North America, Africa, and Melanesia." Journal of Anthropological Research (Albuquerque) 36, no. 21 (Summer 1980): pp. 220-230.

Jedrej, M.C. "Dan and Mende Masks: A Structural Comparison." Africa 56, no. 1 (1986): pp. 71-80.

Lamb, Venice. "A Vai Kpokpo." Hali: The International Magazine of Fine Carpets and Textiles (London) 14, no. 5, 65 (Oct. 1992): pp. 84-85.

Ottenberg, Simon. "The Beaded Bands of Bafodea." African Arts (Los Angeles) 25, no. 2 (April 1992): pp. 64-75, 98-99.

Potentier, P. "L’habitat Temné (Sierra Leone)." Notes africaines 61 (Jan. 1954): ????.

Siddle, D. J. "The Evolution of Rural Settlements in Sierra Leone circa 1400 to 1968." Sierra Leone Geographical Journal 13 (1969): ????.

Siddle, D. J. "War Towns in Sierra Leone." Africa 38, no. 1 (1968): ????.

Silberfein, Marilyn. "Spatial Planning in Sierra Leone: A Kenema District Case Study." Sierra Leone Studies at Birmingham 1988: Proceedings of the Fifth Birmingham Sierra Leone Studies Symposium, 15th-17th July 1988, Fircroft College, Birmingham, edited by Adam Jones, et. al. Birmingham: Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1990: 121-32.

See Tagliaferri. "Sculture in pietra della Sierra Leone, della Guinea e della Liberia: Alcune questioni di metodo."

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