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Where are the Baule from?

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Ivory Coast

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Waka Snan

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(Baule) “people of wood” - men and women dressed in the finest costume

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Mouse Divination

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(Baule) widely used in consultations regarding concerns ranging from serious illness to establishing the time and scale of sacrifices, from personal misfortune to public conflict. the lower compartment houses a mouse fed on rice, which is put in the upper chamber on a small tray to which are attached nine articulated beaded batons.

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Akan

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(Baule) Related groups of people to Baule

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Susan Vogel

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(Baule) Studies and publishes on the Baule at Columbia

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Asantehene

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king of Asante, chosen for skill, ruler of Akan confederacy

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Kumasi

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the cultural capital of Ghana

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Odwira

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(Asante) New Years festival, British officer traveled to Kumasi to attend this festival

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Okomfo Anokye

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(Asante) Priest or Advisor to Osei Tutu, invented golden stool (nobody sits on this stool, sacred, descended from clouds, similar to our flag)

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Osei Tutu

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(Asante) Founded 1700 Akan Confederacy (council, collective groups of Akan speaking peoples

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Golden Stool

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(Asante) Descended to Osei Tutu on a Friday, symbol of all Akan states

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Thomas Bowditch 1817

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English officer in 1817. Walked from Cape Coast to Asante to study to study the people. First editions of book were hand color painted by Bowditch

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Pierre de Marees 1640

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Sailed on Dutch ship, carefully described the Asante, were turned into engravings

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Okyeame

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(Asante) Interlocutor between kings and individual

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Adinkra

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Stamped cloth oldest type that the Asante made

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Kente

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(Asante) Geometric strip cloth, done in bright color

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Forowa

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(Asante) A container of cooper/brass that is used to hold relics

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Akua Ba

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(Asante) Image of Akua’s child, common – Very small, very iconic, disk-shapped headed doll

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Oba

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term for king in Benin

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Akenzuaa

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popular and successful king (Benin, Nigeria)

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1897 British punitive expedition

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response to the defeat of a previous British-led invasion force under Acting Consul General James Philips (which had left all but two men dead).[1] Rawson’s troops captured, burned, and looted Benin City, bringing to an end the west African Kingdom of Benin. As a result much of the country’s art, including the Benin Bronzes, was either destroyed, looted or dispersed.

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Early period

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1400-1600

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Middle period

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1600-1700

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Late period

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1700-1897

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Recent period
1897-now
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Iguegha
First brass castor (Benin)
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Igbo Ukwu
It is notable for three archaeological sites, where excavations have found bronze artifacts from a highly sophisticated bronze metal-working culture dating perhaps to the 9th or 10th century, centuries before other known bronzes of the region.
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Igbo Isaiah
Shallow, remains of a shrine which was built on surface of ground
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Igbo Richard
Deep, burial of a powerful and wealthy man
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Thurston Shaw
English archeologist who studied the Equatorial Forest
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Where are the Igbo from and what are they known for?
Nigeria, upward mobility
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Mwuo
(Igbo) White maiden mask
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Okoroshi
(Igbo) dark, ugly male mask, also used to refer to the masquerade in general
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Mbari
(Igbo) Prayer offered in the form of art, art as process finsihed product is discarded
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Ikenga
(Igbo) Shrines to the man's right arm, strength and aggression, ambition, and personal power
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Ichi
(Igbo) Marks placed on the foreheads of men when they achieve status
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Herbert M. Cole
Scholar that wrote chapter on Igbo in the Visona text
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Nganga
Healer/pharmacist who puts healing potions together and prepares Nkisi
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Nkisi
Magical object (can be figural)/power object for giving medicine & for healing
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Nkonda
Means "hunt" - sculpted figures with nails driven into them. They hunt witches (symbolic)
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Mpemba
clay and kale that is used to give power to Nkisi. the white clay is associated with bones of their ancestors (symbolically)
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Vodou
Syncretistic religion, blends aspects of Christianity and African religions
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Kota language
Bantu
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Mahangwe
Northern kota
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Obamaba
Southern Kota
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Mbulu
(Kota) term for the guardian figures, northern- wire wrapped around wooden armature, Southern wire covered with sheets of metal
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What did Kota Women wear?
wore attached chain from septum to ear
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What did Kota men wear?
patterned wigs made of fiber often decorated with cowrie shells
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Ngil
(Kota) mask of men's society, slightly concave, heart shaped-face-to-eyebrows. Duran, Braque, and Pacasso - interest in the art of Gabon (primitive)
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Bieri
(Kota) Reliquary guardian figures, focus of symmetry and balance (because they live in a chaotic place)
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Ancient Ife
City of Yoruba
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Olodumare
Yoruba creator god
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Obatala
Yoruba god of artist
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Oduduwa
First ruler of Ife
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Oni
King of Ife
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Where are the Yoruba from?
Nigeria
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Yoruba has a huge population
neat!
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Eshu (elegba)
(Yoruba) trickster/messenger god, will trip you if you dishonor him, god of the crossroads-physical or metaphorical
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Shango
punishes with lightning, god of twins (Yoruba)
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Ibeji
twin (Yoruba)
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Babalawo
Diviner (Yoruba)
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Ifa
system or god of divination (Yoruba)
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Oba
(Yoruba) Title for King
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Gelede
(Yoruba) mask tradition that is directed at women, worn by men
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Egungun
(Yoruba) mask tradition for the ancestors
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Henry Drewal
Yoruba scholar - University of Wisconsin
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Oni
(Yoruba) chief of Ife
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Olodumare
Yoruba creator god
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Obatala
Son that was sent down first (Yoruba)
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Frobenius
early mythologist and scholar who was 1st to visit Ife, recorded many of their myths
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Ekpo Eyo
Nigerian archaeologist retired from U of Maryland
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F. Willet
archeology at Northwestern, then director of museum n Glasgow
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Where are the Kuba from
Congo
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Nyim
king of Kuba people
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Ndop
(Kuba) cared wooden figure that represents the king (only about 12 of them)
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Shamba Bolongongo
1st king of Kuba
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Mwaash a mboy
King's mask (Kuba)
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Ngaady a mwaash
Queen's mask/women's mask - metaphor for earth/mother earth (Kuba)
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Mbwoom
(Kuba) represents pygmies who lived in the area before the Kuba William Shepard: American missionary who was black. Went to Congo in 19th century and brought art back & wrote about some of the atrocities being committed by colonialist
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Hochschild
wrote King Leopold’s Ghost about atrocities King Leopold of Belgium committed against people of the Congo
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Mbudye
divination association
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Nokongolo
Evil uncle, overthrown by Kalala
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Kalala llunga
Brave young prince
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Lukasa
Memory device
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Master of buli
artist (did stools w/ flipper hands)
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Polly (Mary) Nooter-Roberts
Luba scholar
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Asante Theme
visual motifs and verbal expression
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Njoya
Famous King during the period of the transition
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Ibrahim Njoya
brother who painted the painting of Fon Yu
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Fon
Term for king in Cameroon
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Yon Yu
has famous portrait stolen
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Afo a Kom
Refers directly to the painting
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Kwifoyn
political system of checks and balances - like the supreme court

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