Swahili Culture Reconsidered: Some Historical Implications of the Material Culture of the Northern Kenya Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1974, Pages 105-138

  Allen, J de V ^a  

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EID: 84972971069     PISSN: 0067270X     EISSN: 19455534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00672707409511719     Document Type: Article

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