Word: madagascan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craftsmen were rarely violent and seldom vicious: for all their burdens, they tended to look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...
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