Those statements are a little harder to do than stated. Let us take Africa. You have a continent that was divided up into countries that had little to do with the local cultures or tribes of the area. So is it a better idea to say that a item is berber, turaq,arab, etc.etc.
Should we start identifying pieces as 50% 17th century,25% 19th century, the rest 20th century.
Should we start using words like ottoman influenced, Russian influenced.
Maybe we should also look at how late earlier technology was still being used.
Identifying a piece is more a educated guess than anything. How much education is the question.
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