Geography
This region contains cities including Tassili N'Ajjer, Cairo, Ife-Ife, and Djenne.
What is Africa?
The trade route that spanned from Europe to Asia allowing for trade of religion, peoples, art styles, and consumer goods (spices, jewels, books, etc.)
What is the Silk Road?
This European colonial event of 1884-1885 continues to impact African countries today.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This spiritual power comes from ancestors can be found in objects, body parts (teeth, hair, etc.), and art.
What is mana?
This art is created by beating the bark of the paper mulberry tree.
What is barkcloth?
This region contains islands including Aotearoa, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Rapa Nui, and Hawai'i.
What is Oceania?
An essential element of Buddhist monasteries, a grand circular mound.
What is a Stupa?
Fang and Kota cultures valued ancestral spirits by creating these:
What are reliquary guardians?
This is the name of the Polynesian creator god.
Who is Tangaroa?
Figures of heads from Nigeria and South Africa are examples of this type of art medium:
What is sculpture?
This region is the home of the Feather Cape and Helmet.
What is Hawai'i?
Symbols that don't depict or represent human imagery.
What is Aniconic imagery?
This architectural structure is evidence of Islam in 13th Century Africa.
What is the Great Mosque in Djenne?
These bodily markings identify one's ancestry, connection to deities, history, and grief.
What are tatau, or tattoos?
This art style/technique is found in both Africa and Oceania, and creates permanent wounds to someone's body.
What is scarification?
This region is the home of the Waist Pendant of a Queen Mother.
What is Benin, Nigeria?
A Mesoamerican representation of a fallen warrior.
Arriving in Ethiopia in the fourth century, this belief system was the motivation of building the Beta Giorghis in Lalibela in the 13th century.
What is Christianity?
These architectural structures found in Aotearoa represent the body of ancestors.
What are marae or meetinghouses?
The art of this region features portable bark paintings, carved figures, and bodily painting to reflect the Dreamings.
What is Australia?
This region is the home of the Wooden Sculptures of Nukuovo.
What is Micronesia?
Name all Five Pillars of Islam.
What are:
1. Devotion to the one true god, Allah.
2. Fasting during the month of Ramadan.
3. Pray 5x/day facing Mecca.
4. Giving alms to the poor.
5. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in your life.
What is Benin?
Family genealogies and connections to deities can be found in these art forms: (must list at least 3 for full points)
What are tattoos, marae, woodcarvings, and chants?
These elaborate containers created in present day Sierra Leone by a people known as the Sapi illustrate the artistic interactions between 16th Century Africans and Europeans.
What are the Sapi Saltcellars?