Details Title: African Art Description: Test one Total Flash Cards: 44 Created: 09/18/2007 12:36:57		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Art History Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term JENNE CULTURE FIGURE 12-1500 AD Fired clay Terra cotta Probably a married couple He has a beard (shows he is an adult) The man in behind her Thick inverted lips (normal) Pointed bald head They are molded and stuck on Faces are turned up toward u Definition Term SEATED MALE FIGURE Jenne 1200-1500 Hands on head (showing lamenting) Definition Term HORSE AND RIDER: 1200-1500 Its been restored The horse looks small in comparison to the rider The horse is proof of the riders status They pay lots of attention to the tack of the horse The rider has a quiver on his back There is a knife tied on Definition Term A PENDANT OF SOME SORT One of the most complete ones know It has copper plugs pounded into it There are loops for suspension at the top The thumbs are the loops Figure in between the arms The things with the holes in them may be weapons It is prob Definition Term BRONZE ORNAMENT 5 1/2" tall There was a loop on the top Normal seated pose Lips and nose have been worn down Breech cloth Scarification patterns on his thighs Normal seated position It realates to the ceramic figures 1200-1500 Jenne Brass Wor Definition Term BURNISHED POT Grey and cream decoration Some texture Grave goods Definition Term TOGUNA Provides cultural backbone Caste system (farmer-blacksmith) The house of words Where the elders meet out of the range of women They assemble the posts with lintels and then pile brush on top The brush insulates them and makes them cool Some Definition Term NO info Definition Term STANDING WOMAN Bald Bracelet Ornate breach cloth thing Necklace Legs are thicker than natural Big ears Lots of detail on the face Holding a broken face Function unknown 1200-1500 Jenne  Definition Term MALE HEAD REST Talem 1300-1500 Grave goods Pillow it doesn't mess up your hair It you do it right you will hit a nerve under you ear that makes u sleepy Hard heavy and eroded Definition Term WOMAN’S HEAD PAD Talem 1300-1500 to carry a load around Definition Term BURIAL FIGURES 13-1500 Talem Knelling in Early things are in hard wood, more rounded and more realistic proportions, they are more rounded curved, sometimes asymetrical and detailed Later things are sometimes in soft wood Female They are knelling a Definition Term Dogom Realistic Hands are typical for dogom (one open one closed) Late Longer with rounder leg Bent joints When they are standing they are probably fabulous ancestors Definition Term Shrine pieces 17-18000 Dogom Mother and child together Her holding the baby is the only asymmetry Long and gentle figure Testifies to the woman’s capability Kept in house of clan head Point of contact to ancestors Definition Term Shrine piece 17-18000 Dogom Woman and churn Long and gentle figure Testifies to the woman’s capability Kept in house of clan head Point of contact to ancestors Definition Term She sits on a stool supported by Namo More symmetrical Legs are getting shorter and shorter And limbs are more jointed Late Dogom Early 19th cent Kid on her back Definition Term Grave figure It is older Lack of detail and figures (islam influence) Dogom Definition Term Grave figure Recent 20th century Hands in front of tummy reps pregnancy or desire for it Has a lebret Bullet shaped head dogom Definition Term Dogom Method of communicating with ancestors On a horse 19-20t century Wood Monozilous Hand is up the iron spear is goine Horse is smaller than it wood be Culture hero Definition Term Horse and rider on the lid are one piece of the wood the bowl is another Prestige oriented item High status people would be served with this Definition Term Painted and used for one time use until recently Masks are for Dama (funerary rite) 1 year for every one that has died Worn by men’s seceret society Wamu (antelope) Black and white mineral paint in soft wood Boxy face Horns tell you it’s an antelope Definition Term Rabbit mask (ears and black and white finger painted spots) Soft wood Made by who ever is going to wear it Honoring the spirit Worn by men’s secret society Definition Term Canaga Represents the world Duality Upper world our world and lower world Honorns dead ancestors Doma Definition Term Satimba Wild woman who stole all the dogom masks from the Tolem Infertile woman only honorary man Her stuff was kept away from the village Definition Term Granary door Dogom Nothing is more important the granary (ancestral protection) 2 pieces of wood held together with iron staples and lock and bolt Not monozygolos 20th cent Definition Term Man beer pot He would make it himself He put paired dots on the N, S, E, W Shows namo symbolism (dogom) Definition Term Shrine figure Bamana These are left by women at the doors of shrines Women won’t wear masks anywhere in Africa Eroded 1700s A husband for one of the female figures Soft and asymmetrical Made from hard wood Definition Term Figure Woman holding breasts in sign of fertility Pig tails are Bamana Old figure with soft curves and naturalistic Hard wood Definition Term Bamana Early 1800s Woman with child on her lap Thighs are sort and calves are long Small head Only asymmetry is the baby Definition Term 1930s chin less Aggressive Weird looking Black figure Buick bumper breasts (Straight out) Big hands that are flat Bamana Definition NO pic Term Styalized woman Bamana Pointy breasts Pig tails Wood but looks metal This is woman On a pedestal   Definition Term Protective mask Bamana N’tamo (boys initiation society) Mask worn by the person who protects the boys The horns on top refer to clan myths Antelope on top for fertility Definition Term Mask from Korae group Hyena mask that wards off mask (police mask to keep away hostile uninitiated beings) Woods Charred surface (with poker to make it black) Rubbed with charcoal and palm oil Doesn’t look like a hyena Its buldging foredeah, its bla Definition Term Korae rite guardian mask Lion Definition No Pic Term Fankuru Antelope head piece (not mask) Plank like Very thin Vertical style They are danced by best farmer in two different villages Chyara (male head pieces): taught bamana people how to farm They honor him by dancing his magic in the field They d Definition Term Fankuru Bamana Male female pair She has young fawn on her back Fawn is more decorated Fawn has open work neck Vertical style Definition Term Chyara mask Horizontal style Definition Term Chyara mask It is standing on another animal Is farming beast it is abstract Definition no pic Term Woven cloth BoBo Women did the weaving Definition pic wont load Term BOBO/ bwa Bobo/anua Bobo/bobo Burkina Faso (country) This is Bobo/ Bwa Men’s organization mask Very abstract Soft wood Checker board and black white is duelality balance Owl that impales witches   Definition Term Butterfly BOBO Bwa mask (more sculptural) Associated with fertility Has owl beak to impale witches Soft wood Definition Term BOBO/UNA buffllo mask Police mask More sculptureal Horns Half helmt Soft wood   Definition Term BOBO/BOBO maks White faced (reps spirit) 2 antelope horns at the top In hard wood Its replaceing older basketry type Definition Term No info Definition