Hausa | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

With a total population of over twenty-two million, the Hausa live primarily in northwestern Nigeria and throughout West Africa, including Niger, Cameroon, and Ghana. Hausa artists create work in a variety of media, including leather, metal, ceramics, and fiber, in which African and Islamic characteristics are often combined. Hausa men both weave and embroider the voluminous prestige gowns that have become the masculine national dress in Nigeria.

Excerpt from

Roslyn A. Walker, The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), 302.

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ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS (list applicable note links)

African Art in Context

Artists in Traditional African Art

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WEB RESOURCES

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Art & Life in Africa~Learn more about the Hausa peoples.
Smart History~Read an overview of the peoples and cultures in Africa.

ARCHIVAL RESOURCES (digitized/non-digitized)

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General Description

With a total population of over twenty-two million, the Hausa live primarily in northwestern Nigeria and throughout West Africa, including Niger, Cameroon, and Ghana. Hausa artists create work in a variety of media, including leather, metal, ceramics, and fiber, in which African and Islamic characteristics are often combined. Hausa men both weave and embroider the voluminous prestige gowns that have become the masculine national dress in Nigeria.

Excerpt from

Roslyn A. Walker, The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), 302.

Fun Facts

Archival Resources

(digitized/non-digitized)

Web Resources

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Art & Life in Africa~Learn more about the Hausa peoples.
Smart History~Read an overview of the peoples and cultures in Africa.

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