African Art Exam Review

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Kuba

• Theme: Status, danced, done for royal lineages (royalty)

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Luba

• Theme: Royal seat

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Luba

• Theme: Headrest, royalty (beads)

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Songye

• Theme: Power figure

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Songye

• Theme: Social control - come out during performances (say what is good and what is bad)

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Benalulua

• Theme: Fertility, abundance, goodness, beauty, and strength (enlarged head and big feet)

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Pende

• Theme: Initiation age grade society

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Yaka

• Theme: Divination

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Yaka

• Age grade, initiation

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Luba

• Theme: Chiefs staff

• Gabon

• Ethnic group: Fang

• Theme: Guardian of remains

• Gabon

• Ethnic group: Fang

• Theme: Reliquary figure - seated on a basket that holds the bones of the deceased

• Gabon

• Ethnic group: Kota

• Theme: protector of relics

• Gabon

• Ethnic group: Mohangue

• Theme: Reliquary

• Cameroon

• Ethnic group: Bamalique

• Theme: Something only for royal families

  • Royal and funerary performances (elephant mask)

• Gabon, Congo, Angola, DRC

• Ethnic group: Vili

• Theme: Spirituality

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Vili

• Theme: Divination - inkese

  • Oath taking

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Chokwe

• Theme: First ancestor, chief, great authority

• DRC

• Ethnic group: Luba

• Theme: Divination, “ Lukasa”

• Cameroon

• Ethnic group: Bamum

• Theme: Speak to ancestors, funerary performance

• Gabon

• Ethnic group: Punu

• Theme: Ancestral celebration, age grade society

• Burkina Faso

• Ethnic group: Bwa

• Theme: Funerary

• “Plank mask”

• Mali

• Ethnic group: Bamana

• Theme: Cultivation, agricultural

• Cote D’ivoire

• Ethnic group: Dan

• Theme: Initiation

• Ghana

• Ethnic group: Asante

• Theme: Ensure health & well being of an unborn child

  • Woman would wear on waist

  • Motherhood

• Mali

• Ethnic group: Bomana

• Theme: Ceremonial function, community figure

• “Boil”

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Nok

• Theme: Ancestral heritage

• Mali

• Ethnic group: Dogon

• Theme: Funerary services, ensure safe passage of the spirits

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Yoruba

• Theme: Funerary

• Twin figures

• Benin

• Ethnic group: Edo

• Theme: Head of an oba, Royalty

• Ghana

• Ethnic group: Asante

• Theme: Royalty

• Cote D’ivoire

• Ethnic group: Senufo

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Efe

• Theme: Royalty, honoring ancestors, funerary

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Yoruba

• Theme: Royalty

• Housepost by Olowe of Ise

• Cote D’ivoire

• Ethnic group: Senufo

• Theme: Ceremonial

• Cote D’ivoire

• Ethnic group: Dan

• Theme: Initiation

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Ifa

• Theme: Divination board

• Mali

• Ethnic group: Dogon

• Theme: Royalty

• Cote D’ivoire

• Ethnic group: Senufo

• Theme: ceremonial

• “Fire-spitter” mask

• Sierra Leone

• Ethnic group: Mende

• Theme: Ceremonial, female sande society

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Benin

• Theme: Royalty

• “Plaque depicting an oba with mudfish legs”

• Cote D’ivoire

• Ethnic group: Baule

• Theme: masquerade

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Edo

• Theme: Royalty, mask of a queen mother

• “Waist pendant of a mother queen”

• Nigeria

• Ethnic group: Yoruba

• Theme: Honoring mothers

• Ghana

• Ethnic group: Asante

• Theme: Chief stool