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$8.5 million was spent building this factory, which opened in1975 to build 4000 trucks and 8000 cars per year. I wonder if it is still operating.

Chokwe Mask from Angola at OBJETS D'ART in Corpus Christi,Texas

Dogon Mask from Mali West Africa at OBJETS D'ART in Corpus Chjristi Texas

Ockley Road, London SW16

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me and my cousins

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me and my cousins

Made these blinds from old flour sacks I bought in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) about 20 years ago. Love the raw cotton and the printed blue design. They're now in my kitchen.

Operating dates 1971 - 1992

From lalelu

One of the principal Kuba dance masks is called Pwoom Itok; it was part of the Kuba royal circle of masks. The chief identifying characteristic of the Pwoom Itok mask is the shape of the eyes, whose centers are cones surrounded by holes through which the wearer sees. The mask would have originally been attached to a more elaborate headdress consisting of feathers and raffia cloth. These masks, like many Kuba masks, are polychrome or multicolored--although this specimen is monochrome.

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Caption: Members from the 501st Transportation Squadron, Kaiserslautern Germany, and C Company, 3rd Battalion, 325th Infantry Brigade (Airborne Combat Team, (ABCT)), Southern European Task Force (SETAF), Vicenza, Italy, and the Task Force 51, Mannheim Germany, bring a convoy of fresh water. The water was made by eight chlorinators and two reverse osmosis machines in Goma for Rwandan refugees located at Camp Kimbumba, Zaire.

Photographer's Name: TSgt. Marv Krause

Location: unknown

Date Shot: 8/11/1994Date Posted: unknown

VIRIN: J-3003-SPT-94-04-0004-0683

The Songye tribe is located in the southeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Abstract masks of this type had a great influence over Cubism in the early part of the 20th century.

The best known mask of the Songye tribe is known as the "Kifwebe" mask. These masks are typically associated with abstract shapes. The Kifwebe face is usually covered with linear incisions which are sometimes pigmented, the mouth is most often square and protruding. If it has a central crest, it is masculine; if not, feminine. The size of the crest determines the magical power of the mask. Kifwebe masks are used as agents of a tradition and figures of authority to exercise social and political control through practices of evil magic and witchcraft by the members of the bwadi bwa kifwebe society.

Les Marsouins de la 9° Brigade d'Infanterie de Marine tout comme leurs anciens et leurs camarades des autres grandes unites de "Marines" s'entrainent a l'assaut amphibie. Cette Brigade qui a "dans la poitrine, le coeur d'un matelot et celui d'un soldat" est composee de 6 regiments prestigieux et forte de 6500 hommes, les plus anciens professionnels de l'Armee de Terre ainsi que de 2000 vehicules dont 1600 blindes. Crees par Richelieu, specialistes de l'action exterieure depuis 1622, ses Marsouins possedent dans ce domaine une experience irremplacable, forgee par plus de trente annees d'interventions et de participation a la gestion des crises modernes.
Operation Turquoise
Arrivée des forces française à Goma-Arrivée du régiment d'infanterie de chars de marine de Poitiers

Kwanda Base main restaurant stripped of its roof, plumbing, wiring and any other materials that could be useful.

Kwanda Base is a large offshore supply base, one of the largest along the West African coast. It was taken by UNITA's forces in 1992 and recaptured in 1995

A derelict forklift pilfered from the Fina terminal near Kinfuquena during the war sits next to a church on the way between Pangala and Soyo.

A dead tank as a reminder of the battle fought over an oil terminal south of Soyo. The terminal was totally destroyed.

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