Chapter 29

Question 1

Twin figures

Answer 1

Ere Ibeji

Question 2

Voluntary association based on political system

Answer 2

Bwami

Question 3

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Answer 3

Nkanda

Question 4

Plurual of Nkisi, and Kikongo word meaning “container”

Answer 4

Minkisj

Question 5

Figures showing most admired and desirable marks of beauty so spirit spoused may be encouraged to enter and inhabit them

Answer 5

Spirit Spouse

Question 6

From Yoruba culture, practice of seeking knowledge or the unknown by supernatural means

Answer 6

Divination

Question 7

Cloth originally associated with royalty, but now used more for widespread festive attire, worn at special occasions

Answer 7

Kente

Question 8

Chokwe diviners

p. Divination basket

Answer 8

Nganga

Question 9

Object serving as divinatory and judical function to seek out wrongdoers and punish them for their misdeeds. Began as undorend wooden figure, often in human or animal form

Answer 9

Power Figure

Question 10

Funeral Rite

Answer 10

Dama

Question 11

Fang placed wooden sculpture

p. Reliquary Guardian

Answer 11

Bieri

Question 12

Important igbo surface design system

Answer 12

Uli

Question 13

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Answer 13

Disapora

Question 14

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Answer 14

Nankani

Question 15

People from southwestern and north central Nigeria

Answer 15

Yoruba

Question 16

People initially young med and women into adulthood after onset of puberty

Answer 16

Bwa

Question 17

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Answer 17

Sande

Question 18

Live in the dense forests between the headwaters of the congo River and the great lakes of East Africa

Answer 18

Lega

Question 19

Group of people residing in the democratic republic of congo and angola celebrating the completion of coming-of-age initiation rites by creating brightly painted figurative sculpture and decorated wall panels

Answer 19

Nkanu

Question 20

Gods of Yoruba culture, 1 representing certainty, fate, order, and equlibrium and the other representing uncertainty, disorder, and chance

Answer 20

Orunmila and Eshu

Question 21

Greatly admiring fine language and consequently their governing system includes the special post of spokesman to the ruler

Answer 21

Ashanti

Question 22

Carved doors and Veranda posts for rulers of the Ekiti-Yoruba kingdoms in southwestern Nigerian

p. Palace Door

Answer 22

Olowe

Question 23

People in West Africa that hold collective funeral rite called dama. Their makers produce additional masks that are offered for sale in tourist at the conclusion of the performace

Answer 23

Dogon

Question 24

Shared number of similar institutions and beliefs in which the skulls, bones, and relics of ancestors who had performed great deeds during their lifetimes collected after burial and placed in cylindrical bark

Answer 24

Fang

Question 25

Among the first to portray his own nation and people as prosperous and urban rather than objectifes ethnographic subjects

Answer 25

Seydou Keita

Question 26

Studied Ghanaian surface design traditions as produced by Ewe and Shanti Textile artists

Answer 26

El Anatsui

Question 27

Known for making intensely eneretic large-scale paintings and wall drawings. Shows experiences of movement, accommodation, and change, often becoming important elements int their art making a form an additional basis for the interpretation of their work

Answer 27

Julie Mehretu