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Title Housing Varieties in Vai Village
Full text http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SSRecIDSearch?repl1=AfricaFocus&repl2=AfricaFocus.2006as03.bib
Author(s) Liechty, Thornton
Abstract A rectangular house made of concrete block and a corrugate roof was considered a step up the economic ladder from the traditional round house with thatched roof. Different ethnic groups throughout the country had very similar housing patterns. The Vai live primarily in the northwest on the border between Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Subject(s) Liechty, Thornton; Buildings and structures; Houses; Vai; Villages
Publisher General Library System of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Relation Africa Focus
Type of publication Image
Format image/jpeg; Color Slide; Landscape
Rights African Studies Program; Copyright © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Repository Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin
Added to C-A: 2008-12-22;00:23:38