Archives Center - Selected African Holdings

Archives Center - Selected African Holdings

National Museum of American History

Selected items with African Origination


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NMAH: National Museum of American History

Apartheid is a policy or system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed primarily in South Africa and what is now Namibia from the late 1940s through the 1990s. Currently not …







NMAH: National Museum of American History

Cowrie shells were an important object of exchange in West Africa. They were largely sourced from the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and brought to West Africa by the trans-Saharan …