Factory printed cloth (cotton, dye) with a repeating pattern of two vertical rows of abstract figures on yellow backgrounds with the text “DAKAR” written above and below. Orange text on the top right border reads “DU 1er AU 24 AVRIL 1966″ and on the bottom and top left border reads “1er FESTIVAL MONDIAL DES ARTS NEGRES.” The Wil and Irene Petty Collection, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved.
Gazette de Lausanne et Journal suisse, Lausanne, 169e année, n° 84 (12 avril 1966), p. 1. [Digitised by Le Temps, https://www.letempsarchives.ch/page/GDL_1966_04_12/1]. All rights reserved.
Luxemburger Wort, 119. Jg., n° 106/107 (16.04.1966), p. 4. [Digitised by the National Library of Luxembourg, https://persist.lu/ark:70795/w98048xw2/pages/4/articles/DIVL502]. All rights reserved.
At the Festival of Negro Arts held in Dakar, the National Dance Ensemble of Côte d’Ivoire performed a knife dance.
Revue, 22. Jg., n° 22 (23.04.1966), p. 5. [Digitised by the National Library of Luxembourg, https://persist.lu/ark:70795/fb8w18qh3p/pages/5/articles/DIVL46]. All rights reserved.
Detail from “North Win X-O Games”, by Robert Dennis Reid, 1965. Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved.
In 1966, Reid was one of ten African American artists selected for an exhibition at the First World Festival of Negro Arts held in Dakar.
Geoffrey Clements [photographer]. [Portrait of] Robert [Dennis] Reid, 1966. American Federation of Arts records, 1895-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.
Gazette de Lausanne. La Gazette littéraire, Lausanne, 169e année, n° 106 (7/8 mai 1966), p. 13. [Digitised by Le Temps, https://www.letempsarchives.ch/page/GDL_1966_05_07/13]. All rights reserved.
L’Action : quotidien catholique, Québec, 59e année, n° 17673 (31 mai 1966), p. 10. [Digitised by the National Library of Quebec, https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3492527]. All rights reserved.
Construire, Zurich, 1st June 1966, p. 5. [Digitised by the National Library of Switzerland, https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=MIG19660601-01.2.15]. All rights reserved.
Rogalands Avis, p. 6 (also in Bergens Arbeiderblad, p. 4), Norway, 18 October 1966. [Digitised by the National Library of Norway, http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digavis_rogalandsavis_null_null_19661018_68_242_1]. All rights reserved.
Boubou made in 1966 by a local tailor in Dakar, commissioned by the English feminist educator Lalage Bown to wear at the opening of the Second International Congress of Africanists, in Dakar, December 1967. “I simply asked the tailor to make me an outfit in the then-current style.” Given by Professor Lalage Bown. Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Textiles and Fashion Collection, T.2422:1to4-2021. All rights reserved.
Luxemburger Wort, 123. Jg., n° 106 (16.04.1970), p. 17. [Digitised by the National Library of Luxembourg, https://persist.lu/ark:70795/3jhznzs3d/pages/17/]. All rights reserved.
