The dikenga. … flags the vanishing point where … the limitations of ordinary vision become acute. —Robert Farris Thompson (1993:49)
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Gundaker, G. The Kongo Cosmogram in Historical Archaeology and the Moral Compass of Dave the Potter. Hist Arch 45, 176–183 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376840
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