Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe is located in this modern-day African country.
What is Zimbabwe?
This Yoruba sculpture of a seated king and attendants shows the importance of hierarchy.
What is the Veranda Post of Enthroned King and Senior Wife?
The Benin plaques were originally attached to this royal structure.
What is the royal palace?
This famous mosque in Mali is made of mud brick.
What is the Great Mosque of Djenné?
Gold and salt trade routes helped spread this religion across West Africa.
What is Islam?
This material was stacked carefully to build the walls of Great Zimbabwe.
What is stone
This famous ivory mask was created for the Benin queen mother.
What is the Pendant Mask of Queen Mother Idia?
This material was commonly used in Benin art because it showed wealth and power.
What is brass or bronze?
The wooden beams sticking out of the Great Mosque of Djenné are used for this purpose.
What is scaffolding for repairs?
This work from the Kongo peoples was believed to hold spiritual power and often had nails hammered into it.
What is Nkisi n’kondi?
The walls of Great Zimbabwe were built without using this material.
What is mortar?
This nkisi nkondi figure from the Kongo culture contains nails driven into it to activate spiritual power.
What is Nkisi n’kondi?
This ruler’s image appears on many Benin plaques.
Who is the Oba?
This religion influenced the architecture of the Great Mosque of Djenné.
What is Islam?
This memory board from the Luba people helped record important historical information.
What is the Lukasa Memory Board?
Great Zimbabwe became wealthy because of trade involving gold and this valuable material.
What is ivory?
This helmet mask from the Bamileke people is covered in colorful beads and represents royalty.
What is the Aka Elephant Mask?
The Yoruba believed that the head was connected to this important spiritual concept.
What is destiny or spiritual power?
This annual event involves the community repairing the mosque together.
What is the mud replastering festival?
This Fang reliquary figure was placed on containers, holding the bones of important ancestors.
What is the reliquary Fang (Byeri)
The conical tower at Great Zimbabwe is believed to symbolize this.
What is royal power or authority?
This sculpture from Mali represents spiritual wisdom and is linked to the Dogon people.
What is the Great Mosque?
This kuba sculpture was created to represent and honor and individual king after his reign
What is the Ndop figure
This architectural style uses adobe mud construction adapted to the hot climate.
What is Sudano-Sahelian architecture?
This headdress from the Bamana peoples represents antelopes and successful farming.
What is the Bamana Chi Wara Headdress?