In this type of painting, the artist is telling a story.
What is a narrative?
This is a massive fortification 1500 miles long, 15- 30 feet wide and 25 feet tall, designed o keep out the nomads of Mongolia and Manchuria.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This Yoruba staff carving of a priestess with a double axe hairstyle represents this god of thunder
Who is Shango?
The beaded veil of the oba adenla (king's crown) protects the viewer from
What is the King's gaze?
Pencil, charcoal, ink and pastel fall under what media?
What is drawing media?
The most famous Mughal Indian structure
What is the Taj Mahal?
This Yoruba divination tray represents this god
Ifa
These stylize, almost life-sized terra-cotta sculptures of humans and animals made between 500 BC – 500 AD are associated with this culture
What is the Nok culture?
How light or dark a given color or hue is
What is value?
On an African person, these are considered marks of civilization. Without these marks, they are considered more like animals. The more marks they have the more distinguished and civilized they are.
What is scarification or body modification?
Ideal quality for a woman in Central and Western Africa
What is coolness and composure?
The three types of lines used in one-point perspective
Converging, vertical and horizontal lines
This is an animal or natural object which symbolizes a clan or a group
What is a totem?
At one time the place where the Sahara desert was a
What is a grassland?
Yoruba mask is made of two parts, lower part depicts woman with cool composure, upper part displays "our mothers" powers
What is the Gelede mask?
This principle can be produced by the repetition of motifs, colors, shapes or lines.
What is pattern?
This religion was founded by the prophet Mohammed whose spiritual writings are contained in the Koran
What is Islam?
The petroglyphs of these animals were found in the Saharan sands of Niger dating back to 6500 BC
What is giraffes?
How Aboriginal artists show two views of an animal at the same time.
What is "x-ray" drawings?
This Yoruba sculpture of this trickster god is the messenger between the heavens and earth
Who is Eshu?