ID's: African Flashcards
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Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
- 1000-1400 C.E.
- Coursed granite blocks
- Southeastern Zimbabwe
- Shona peoples
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Great Mosque
- 1200, rebuilt 1906-1907
- adobe
- remodeled in 1907
- Djenne, Mali
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Wall plaque
- from Oba’s palace
- 16th century
- Cast brass
- Edo peoples
- Benin, Nigeria
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Golden Stool (Skia dwa kofi)
- 1700 C.E.
- gold over wood and cast-gold attachments
- Ashanti peoples (south central Ghana)
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Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul
- Kuba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- 1760-1780 C.E.
- Wood
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Power figure (Nkisi n’kondi)
- Kongo peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- late 19th century C.E.
- Wood and metal
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Female (Pwo) mask
- Chokwe peoples (Dem Rep. of the Congo)
- Late 19th to early 20th century C.E.
- Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal
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Portrait mask (Mblo)
- Baule peoples (Cote d’Ivoire)
- Early 20th century C.E.
- Wood and pigment
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Bundu mask
- Sande society, Mende peoples (West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia)
- 19th to 20th century C.E.
- Wood, cloth, and fiber
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Ikenga (Shrine figure)
- Igbo peoples (Nigeria)
- 19th to 20th century C.E.
- Wood
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Lukasa (memory board)
- Mbudye society, Luba peoples (Dem. Rep. of the Congo)
- 19th to 20th century C.E.
- Wood, beads, and metal
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Aka elephant mask
- Bamileke (Cameroon, western grassfields region)
- 19th to 20th century C.E.
- Wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads
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Reliquary figure (byeri)
- Fang peoples (southern Cameroon)
- 19th to 20th century C.E.
- Wood
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Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)
- Olowe of Ise (Yoruba peoples)
- 1910-1914 C.E.
- Wood and pigment
