The place from which the earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged.
What is valley of the Indus River?
100
During what century did the Chinese artists succeeded in developing a national style in sculpture?
What is the 6th century?
100
Carved sculptures of Arctic animal life (including seals, walruses, and polar bears) and hunting motifs, using stone, ivory, and bone, and made elaborate ceremonial masks.
What are Eskimos?
100
Characteristic of African statueheads.
What are disproportionately large heads?
100
Refers to works produced by the island peoples of the South and Northwest Pacific.
What is Oceanic art?
200
The material from which the Indus civilization produced many statuettes.
What is steatite and limestone?
200
From what dynasty were some of China's most extraordinary art was created? - [the ritual bronzes]
What is the Shang Dynasty?
200
These designs were often painted or embroidered on items with beads and porcupine quills.
What are Triangular and quadrangular designs?
200
Refers only to sub-Saharan African art and particularly to sculpture and carving (mostly in wood) from the vast area surrounding the Niger and Congo basins
What is African Art?
200
The designs developed by these peoples show a highly evolved respect for natural materials, which are scarce.
What are Micronesians?
300
The influence the pillar capitals reveal.
What is the Persepolitan influence?
300
When do the oldest finds excavated at B'ei-li-kang near Luo-yang and date to?
What is 6000-5000 BCE?
300
These cultures are particularly renowned for their elaborate grave offerings, including copper plates and earspools, objects made of other minerals.
What are Early Woodland cultures?
300
Often abstract art consisting mainly of wood-carvings used during religious ceremonies
What are masks and ancestor figures?
300
The Asmat of Irian Jaya are famous for this treatment of the human form.
What is the "praying mantis" -like treatment?
400
The earliest extant stupas date from these two dynasties.
What is the Sunga Dynasty and the early Andhra Dynasty?
400
Traditionally regarded by the Chinese as the highest art form.
What is calligraphy?
400
The mainstay of life for the indigenous Americans of the Great Plains.
What is the buffalo?
400
In this religion, "being" is regarded as vital energy and not solely as the living state.
What is African animist religion?
400
Figures and masks made for the dead, and heraldic wood sculptures known as Uli figures that represent tribal chiefs are found here.
What is New Ireland?
500
Name the one source for the revival of Indian themes during the twentieth century.
What are patua scrolls, containing watercolor illustrations of many subjects?
500
What role did walls play in Chinese architecture?
What are enclosing screens?
500
Tribes that developed brilliantly carved and ornamented kachina dolls to represent living spirits; these are greatly valued by collectors today.
What are the Hopi and Zuni tribes?
500
Used in communication with the spirit world, in the cult of the ancestors and as protective charms in the direct exploitation of the vital energy in the world.
What are masks and statues?
500
Rows of figures placed on Mortlock Atoll illustrate mythological events and were rumored to serve what purpose?
What is thought to protect the islanders from typhoons?