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    "title": "Woman's overskirt (ncaka)",
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        {
            "citation": "Brincard, Marie-Thérèse, and Patricia Darish. Kuba Textiles: Geometry in Form, Space, and Time. 2015."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Moraga, Vanessa Drake. \"Patterns of Change.\" HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles 184 (Summer 2015): 70-77.",
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        }
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