Kongo Power
Women in African Art
Arts of Kingship
Art with a Job
African Potpourri
100
This is the name given to a sculpted power figure found among the Kongo .
What is N'kisi N'kondi?
100
The Bundu mask is especially significant because it represents one of the few instances of women participating in what tradition?
What is masquerade performance?
100
The "ndop" sculpture is intended to serve as this kind of commemoration?
What is an idealized portrait of the king?
100
The Yoruba Veranda post was carved by this famous artist.
Who is Olowe of Ise?
100
This is the year that the British undertook the Punitive Expedition again the Oba of Benin.
What is 1897?
200
This is the spiritual specialist who owns and manipulates the power figure.
Who is the nganga?
200
This is the organization that arranges for and trains women for initiation among the Mende.
What is Sande Society?
200
This is why the head on the "ndop" appears out of proportion with the rest of the figure.
How does the sculpture reflect the ideal importance of thinking and intelligence for kings?
200
The Yoruba Veranda post depicts these important people and is part of an overall sculptural program on a significant building?
Who are an enthroned king and his most senior wife?
200
This is the masonry wall technique found in the circular wall of Great Zimbabwe?
What is ashlar masonry? (Masonry without mortar).
300
The power figure is used for this important purpose.
What is protection or dispute resolution?
300
The Pwo mask is found among this ethnic group in the Congo.
Who are the Chokwe?
300
This is the "ibol" or emblem that represents the specific reign of King Mishe on the "ngop"
What is the purpose of the drum with the severed hand held by the figure?
300
The "lukasa" serves this important function among the Luba people in Congo.
What object aids in the performance of history and describes the founding mythology of the Luba empire?
300
This kind of sculpture is an important means of establishing professional or personal identity among the Igbo.
What is an Ikenga?
400
This action activates or engages the power figure so that it's magical power may be used to address a social problem.
What is hammering a nail into the figure?
400
The Pwo mask is intended to represent these ideal qualities in women.
What are beauty and youthful fertility?
400
The "Golden Stool" is found among this group in Ghana.
Who are the Asante?
400
The Ake Elephant Mask is used among this group who live in Cameroon.
Who are the Bamileke?
400
The "byeri" figures serve what important function for the Fang people of Southern Cameroon?
What is a protective reliquary figure?
500
These might be seen as expressions of how Kongo power figures have been translated to the new world (North America and the Caribbean)?
What are the belief practices of Vodun or superstition of Voodoo dolls?
500
The Bundu mask incorporates these formal qualities to represent ideal womanhood.
What is small mouth, high forehead, fatty neck, glossy sheen, elaborate hairstyles, scarification marks (mention any two).
500
The Golden Stool is believed to represent this abstract concept.
What is the Soul of all the Asante people?
500
The Aka mask is intended to evoke qualities of these two animals found in central Africa.
What are the leopard and the elephant?
500
These qualities found on the wall plaque clearly evidence the Oba's importance in the depiction.
What is central placement, hieratic scale of figures, riding a horse, support from attendants (mention at least two)?
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