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5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

Bamana Headdresses

; unknown Bamana; chi wa

ra; wood, iron, fiber;

20th cen.; heights: 55.2 cm and 59.1 cm; National Museum of African Art, gift of Dr. Ernst Anspach and museum purchase

chi wara

(record- preferredEnglish-P, D)

chi-wara (

English, UF)

tyi wara (

English, UF)

ciwara

(Bambara-P, D)

tchiwara

(French-P, D)

Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute.

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Include

variant

transliterations

and

phonetic

spellings

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Use

sources

where

terms

are

already

transliterated

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experts

in

language,

i.e.,

authorized

translation

projects,

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transliteration

method,

refer

to

Unicode

Transliteration

Guidelines

Languages in AAT

Example: phonetic spelling of oral language; orthography introduced only in the 1960s

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