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The valley along which the first known Indian art appeared
What is the Indus River valley?
100
Material used in most of the sculptures and carvings of early African peoples
What is wood?
100
Oceanic refers to the people who occupy the islands in these regions of the Pacific ocean
What are the South and Northwest?
100
The animal who was the primary focus of life for the American Indians of the Great Plains
What is the buffalo?
200
Material from which many statuettes were made by the Indus civilization
What is limestone?
200
River along which the Dogon people of West Africa, known for their oustanding sculptural abilities, reside
What is the River Niger?
200
Art of the Edo period unified literature, painting and this other art form
What is calligraphy?
200
The Asmat people are best known for depicted the human form with characteristics of this insect
What is the praying mantis?
200
The quills of this animal were often used in Native American art
What is the porcupine?
300
The dynasty to which the Indian Emperor Asoka, who proclaimed his devotion of Buddhism, belonged.
What is Maurya?
300
African people best known for their mortuary heads and figures, depecting primeval ancestors
What is the Fang people?
300
Japanese monochrome pottery with cord-impressed designs
What is Jomon?
300
Reddish-colored volcanic rock used by some Oceanic peoples to make huge sculptures of humans
What is tufa?
300
These dolls, created by Southwestern Native Americans, represented living spirits
What are kachina dolls?
400
Indians believe that this is the "breath of life" by which they come into existence
What is prana?
400
These disc-headed fertility dolls are examples of wood carvings by the Ashanti people of Ghana
What is akua'ba?
400
Japanese painting style whose name translates to "pictures of the fleeting floating world"
What is Ukiyo-e?
400
Oceanic people best known for their carved wooden drums
What are the Sepik River peoples?
400
Stone, bone and this material were all commonly used in Inuit art
What is ivory?
500
The three major religions in Indian art, which were often mixed a melded together
What are Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism?
500
Work by Pable Picasso that was inspired by the abstractionism of some African tribal art
What is "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"?
500
This period of Japanese art included the resurgence of Chinese-style ink painting
What is the Muromachi period?
500
The Baining people who occupy this peninsula are known for their ritual masks, which they destroy after completely a ritual
What is the Gazelle Peninsula?
500
The Paiute people belonged to this region of the United States
What is the West Coast?