3D Art Processes
This architectural technique places a large stone or wooden beam horizontally across upright posts.
What is a polyrhythm?
This is the controversial name given to the hunter-gatherer population of the Congo Basin.
What is pygmy?
This is comprised of three main sections or components: the Hill Ruin, the Great Enclosure, and the Valley Ruins.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
Many pieces discussed in West African Art were created using this technique that includes both a direct and indirect method.
What is Lost Wax Casting?
She was highly respected for her expertise on the mbira and can be heard singing on "Nhemamusasa".
Who was Beauler Dyoko?
This is a sculpture process in which some of the original material of wood or stone is removed by chisels, hammers, or files.
What is carving?
These are sounds that are sung that have no literal meaning.
What are vocables?
Located in the Twyfelfontein Valley in Namibia, these engravings include imagery of animal forms such as elephants, rhinoceroses, zebras, antelopes, and giraffes.
What are Stone Age Petroglyphs?
These pieces, considered to be centrally important to the history of African art, range in size from a few inches to life-size forms and are built out of local clays mixed with gravel and grit to strengthen them during the firing process.
What are the Nok Terracottas?
Moires are classified as this type of instrument.
What are lamellophones?
This is a term given to art forms that are largely practical through time and across cultures, including pottery, jewelry, fibers, glass and wooden objects.
What is craft and folk art?
The effects of deforestation, global warming, and social and environmental devastation caused by mining have made celebration songs such as this one rare.
What is "Song of Rejoicing after Returning from a Hunt"?
This collection of artwork was discovered in 1962 and contains six pieces with human attributes and a seventh smaller form with animal characteristics.
What are the Lydenburg Heads?
This is the name given to a group of more than a thousand commemorative plaques and sculptures that originally decorated the kingdom's royal palace.
What are the "Benin Bronzes"?
This song was recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds and has been covered many times over the years, most notably by The Tokens in 1961 with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
What is "Mbube"?
These two types of art require permission from the community or government agencies before they can be installed and are not permanent in nature.
What are environmental and performance art?
She was one of the most well known singers in the Arab world in the 20th century and is most remembered for her authenticity to Egyptian culture and recitation of the Quran.
Who was Umm Kathum?
The Great Zimbabwe is thought to have served this purpose.
What is a judicial center or royal palace?
Originally created for and worn solely by the king in ceremonial contexts, this has evolved to be worn by everyday people and has even become a popular souvenir item.
What is Kente Cloth?
This style of music, which translates to "step lightly", is a mix of Zulu wedding song, European harmonies, and African-American jubilee and minstrel troupes.
What is Isicathamiya (All-Male Choral Music)?
Artists who create this type of artwork made popular by Pablo Picasso and Georges Barque in 1912 use several types materials and may add items such as fabric, rope, broken dishes, newspaper, or children's toys to give their artwork texture and depth.
What is mixed media?
This song title is an onomatopoeia, a term that imitates the sound produced by the alteration of singing and blowing into a whistle.
What is Hindewhu Solo?
The lines that are hatched across the cheeks and above the nose of the Lydenburg Head as well as the small knot forms seen near the ears are understood to represent this.
What is facial scarification?
He discovered the first bronze items at Igbo Ukwo in 1938 after he began digging a hole in his backyard to install a water tank on his property.
Who was Isaiah Anozie?
The two mbira parts in "Nhemamusasa", the three beat kushaura and the four beat kutsinhira, give the song a rich texture and help form this.
What is a polyrhythm?