Adams, Monni
1978 Kuba Embroidered Cloth, African Arts XII, No.1:24-39.

Barbour, Jane, and Doig Simmonds, eds.
1971 Adire Cloth in Nigeria. University of Ibabdan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Bedaux, Rogier M.A., and Rita Bolland
1980-81 Medieval Textiles from the Tellem Caves in Central Mali, West Africa.The Textile Museum Journal 19 & 20 : 65-74.

Borgatti, Jean
1983 Cloth as Metaphor: Nigerian Textiles from the Museum of Cultural History. Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Boser-Sarivaxevanis, Renee
1980 West African Textiles and Garments. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul:.

Brett-Smith, Sarah
1990/91 Empty Space: The Architecture of Dogon Cloth, Anthropology and Aesthetics, pp. 163-177, vols. 19-20.

1984 Speech Made Visible: The Irregular as a System of Meaning, Empirical Studies of the Arts, pp. 127-147, vol. 2, no. 2.

1982 Symbolic Blood: Cloths for excised Women, Anthropology and Aesthetics, pp. 15-31, vol. 3, Spring.

1993 The Mouth of the Komo, Anthropology and Aesthetics, pp. 71-96, vol. 31, Spring.

Cole, Herbert M., ed.
I am not Myself: The Art of African Masquerade. Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles.

Good for information on maskers and thumbnail sketches of several relevant groups: Bamana (Mali), Mende (Sierra Leone and Liberia), Baule (Cote d'Ivoire), Yoruba (Nigeria), Northern Edo (Nigeria), Grassfields Region (Cameroon), Pende (Zaire), Salampasu (Zaire), and Kuba (Zaire).

Ekpo, Ikwo A.
1978 Ekpe Costume of the Cross River.AA XII, No.1 :73-75.

Gilfoy, Peggy Stoltz
1987 Patterns of Life: West African Strip-Weaving Traditions. National Museum of African Art, (Smithsonian Institution Press), Washington, D.C.

Glaze, Anita
1978 Senufo Ornament and Decorative Arts. AA XII, No.1 :70-71.
For information on filafani.

Imperato, Pascal James, and Marli Shamir
1970 Bokolanfini: Mud Cloth of the Bamana of Mali.AA III, No.4 :32-41.

Imperato, Pascal James
1973 Wool Blankets of the Peul (Fulani) of Mali. AA VI, No.3 :40-47.

Joseph, Marietta B.
1978 West African Indigo Cloth.AA XI, No.2 :34-36.

Kent, Kate P.
1971 West African Cloth. Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver.

Kriger, Colleen
1988 Robes of the Sokoto Caliphate.AA XXI, No.3 :52-57 & 78-79.
For background information on the importance of robes.

Lamb, Venice and Alastair
1975 West African Narrow Strip Weaving. The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C..

Northern, Tamara
1984 The Art of Cameroon.Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Good for background information on Cameroon.

Picton, John, and John Mack
1979 African Textiles. The Trustees of the British Museum, London.

Polakoff, Claire
1980 Into Indigo. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York.

Sieber, Roy
1972 African Textiles and Decorative Arts. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Washburn, Dorothy K.
1990 Style, Classification and Ethnicity: Design Categories on Bakuba Raffia Cloth. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 30, Philadelphia.