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The commissions, many arranged by students conducting fieldwork in countries across the continent, include an embroidered woman's cotton robe with traditional embroidery patterns in silk from Mali, a \u003ci\u003ekente\u003c\/i\u003e cloth commemorating a visit to Ghana by Bill Clinton in 2009, and an Ebonko masquerade ensemble from Nigeria.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This accompanying volume, overseen by curator Susan Cooksey, offers in-depth essays on such topics as the trade routes for indigo, \u003ci\u003ekente \u003c\/i\u003eand other African-print commemorative cloth, cheiftancy dress and masquerades, Asafo flags, the emergence of the East African \u003ci\u003ekanga, \u003c\/i\u003eand much more. 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This publication and the exhibition it accompanies consider some of the many ways metal arts in sub-Saharan Africa have sustained and enhanced material and spiritual well-being. Further, they examine the wide diversity and nuanced intersections of roles metal objects and metal artists have played in building communities through supporting leadership, enhancing religious practices, and cultivating social discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a substance that is both malleable and strong, metal offers artists a means for creating dazzling forms with the power to last for centuries. Metal's permanence conveys the steadfastness of power and authority and concomitant trust and respect between individuals and polities.\u003c\/p\u003e Some seventeen years ago, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art's curator of African art, Dr. Susan Cooksey, identified works in metal as underrepresented in the collection and a priority for acquisitions going forward. 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It was originally produced to accompany an exhibition, mounted by the Harn Museum of the University of Florida, that is currently on view at the Carter Center in Atlanta. It explores the culture of the Kongo people of West Africa. Kongo was a once mighty kingdom that included parts of the French Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Congo Belge (the former Zaire), and Angola. Further, during the years of the slave trade, many members of its Bantu ethnic group were transported to the southern United States, Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil.  The exhibition and the catalogue benefitted substantially from the loan of objects by the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Belgium, adding depth to our understanding the complexity of Kongo cosmology, ceremony, and art. But, for my money, the most exceptional feature of both show and book was the Harn Museum's decision to focus as well on the impact of the Kongo people on the New World. This makes both the show and book critically relevant for those wanting to know more about the contributions of West African culture to the larger patchwork of life in these United States.  Readers intrigued by this interplay may also wish to pick up a copy of Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. 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