Midterm 1

Question 1

Western Sudan

Answer 1

Niger River runs through, primarily rural with faming towns, mostly in centralized political system

Question 2

Dogon, Mali

Answer 2

Country of Dogons, tourism is a big industry, built early villages on top of bandigara escarpment providing protection, rely heavily on farming

Question 3

Hogon

Answer 3

Religious leader of Dogon community (priest), responsible for all religious activities of the region

Question 4

Awa

Answer 4

Male mask society, organizes funerals (perform rituals pertaining to death), use great mask

Question 5

Kenaga Mask

Answer 5

Represent both female and male spirit, most common mask, lizard, carved by Awa initiates

Question 6

Walu

Answer 6

Geometric animal masks, used in ceremonies to commemorate deaths

Question 7

Omono

Answer 7

Monkey mask, monkeys represent trickery and wickedness

Question 8

Satimbe

Answer 8

Mask with face of woman, depicts vasigine women

Question 9

Master of Ogol

Answer 9

Dogon artist, made female funerary figures

Question 10

Tellem

Answer 10

Predecessors of Dogon, no one is certain about what happen to them

Question 11

Sigi

Answer 11

Celebration that occurs every 60 years, great masks are used, commemorates the arrival of death among humankind

Question 12

Dama

Answer 12

Funeral where masks perform and free the souls of the dead, 6 day ritual

Question 13

Griaule

Answer 13

Studied the Dogon in the 30s-50s, criticized for being inconsistent in his research

Question 14

Primitive

Answer 14

First or earliest

Question 15

Tribal

Answer 15

Africans have a large amount of people in their nations

Question 16

Ethnic

Answer 16

Too broad, doesn’t define anything, almost all art is ethnic

Question 17

Black

Answer 17

Not every African is black

Question 18

Negro

Answer 18

not all Africans are black and the word is not used anymore

Question 19

Exotic

Answer 19

Multiple meanings

Question 20

Non-Western

Answer 20

Too broad, similar to how ethnic is used

Question 21

Mossi

Answer 21

Live in Burkina Faso, Best known for wooden dolls, language is Moore

Question 22

Mossi and diversity

Answer 22

Several Mossi peoples, several styles of art (3 major styles), group of farmers conquered and formed Mossi (collective group of people)

Question 23

French and Mossi

Answer 23

French forces often attacked → people of village can move to different area with different chief

Question 24

Lobi are from

Answer 24

Burkina faso

Question 25

Thil

Answer 25

Invented, protective spirits

Question 26

Boteba carved figures

Answer 26

Human-like form, intermediary between thil and human community

Question 27

2 Lobi invented spirits

Answer 27

St. Chrisopher and Hopi Kachina

Question 28

Bwa people are from

Answer 28

Burkina Faso

Question 29

Bwa

Answer 29

Open to change, don’t have many chiefs, much more democratic

Question 30

Do (Dwo)

Answer 30

Spirit represented by leaf mask

Question 31

Landle

Answer 31

Spirit represented by wooden masks

Question 32

Lobi Towns

Answer 32

Boni, Dossi, Pa