Vocab
African Culture
Picture Vocab
Process of Mask Making
Mask Ceremonies
100
The same on both sides.
What is symmetry?
100
Picture Clue 1 shows the green/teal colored county.
What is Africa?
100
The vocabulary word does Picture Clue 2 depict the eggs as?
What is diverse?
100
Application of ink with a brush.
What is painting?
100
In African culture, masks are used to speak with ___.
What is spirits?
200
Forms repeated throughout a composition.
What is repetition?
200
An object that hides the face.
What is a mask?
200
This vocab word describes Picture Clue 3 as same on both sides.
What is symmetry?
200
In class, we used this process to create mask forms.
What is paper mache?
200
This ceremony uses masks for fun and festivities within the tribe.
What is entertainment ceremony?
300
A form enlarged, typically to signify an importance.
What is exaggeration?
300
In African culture, masks include the face portion and _____.
What is full body costume?
300
The primary vocabulary word which describes the nose in Picture Clue 4.
What is exaggeration?
300
With colored medium, this is the process we used with brushes.
What is painting?
300
This ceremony uses masks to ask spirits for food.
What is hunting and/or harvest ceremony?
400
Not exactly like reality. Forms symbolize reality.
What is abstract?
400
Objects that increase the mask's power.
What is amulets.
400
The primary vocab word to describe Picture Clue 5.
What is repetition?
400
Lubricant used to release the mask from the form.
What is soap?
400
This type of ceremony uses the mask as a judging device.
What is judicial?
500
Various or different.
What is diverse?
500
The reason why there is such diversity in African masks.
What is African has many different tribes?
500
Picture Clue 6 shows this vocab word.
What is abstract?
500
In traditional Africa, masks are sculpted this way.
What is carved?
500
During this extended ceremony, applicants are cast out of the tribe for a year. Using their mask for spiritual guiding, they wander to different tribes and beg for food.
What is initiation ceremony?