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Moon Not Sun's avatar

“Decorative design (bwiin) was the very essence of Kuba's artistic activity and particular design forms, which comprise a corpus of about 200 distinct patterns, were often named after their inventors.”

I love how the Kubq were protecting the “IP” of artists if you will. I hope I’ve interpreted that correctly? The level of organization in every aspect of the kingdom is just amazing!

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isaac Samuel's avatar

more like legacy than IP, but yeah, something similar

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Moon Not Sun's avatar

Legacy is the right framing. I like that. Thank you.

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