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Ambo (Southern Angolan and Northern Namibian style)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Style and culture of an African ethnic group inhabiting the dry grassland country of northern Namibia and southern Angola. They are usually called Ovambo in Namibia and Ambo in Angola and speak Kwanyama, a Bantu language.

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Kuanyama-Ambo: Photographic Documentary of the Loeb African Expedition, November 11-December 12, 1949

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Abstract

An exhibition of documentary photography and ethnographic objects from the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition led by Edwin Loeb, Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, to study the Kwanyama people of northern Namibia.

Dates: November 11-December 12, 1949