unit 6 (africa) identifiers

• Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe

• Shona peoples

• Southeastern Zimbabwe

• c. 1000-1400 CE

• Coursed granite blocks

• Great Mosque of Djenné

• Mali

• Founded c. 1200 CE

• Rebuilt 1906-1907 CE

• Adobe

• Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace

• Edo peoples

• Kingdom of Benin

• Nigeria

• 16th century CE

• Cast brass

• Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool)

• Ashanti peoples

• South central Ghana

• c. 1700 CE

• Gold over wood and cast-gold attachments

• Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul

• Kuba peoples

• Democratic republic of the Congo

• c. 1760-1780 CE

• Wood

• Power figure (Nkisi n’kondi)

• Kongo peoples

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• c. late 19th century CE

• Wood and metal

• Female (Pwo) mask

• Chokwe peoples

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• late 19th to early 20th century CE

• wood, fiber, pigment, and metal

• Portrait mask (Mblo)

• Baule peoples

• Côte d’Ivoire

• Early 20th century CE

• Wood and pigment

• Bundu mask

• Sande Society

• Mende peoples

• West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia

• 19th to 20th century CE

• Wood, cloth, and fiber

• Ikenga (shrine figure)

• Igbo peoples

• Nigeria

• c. 19th to 20th century CE

• Wood

• Lukasa (memory board)

• Mbudye Society

• Luba peoples

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• c. 19th to 20th century CE

• Wood, beads, and metal

• Aka elephant mask

• Bamileke

• Cameroon, western grassfields region

• c. 19th to 20th century CE

• Wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads

• Reliquary figure (byeri)

• Fang peoples

• Southern Cameroon

• c. 19th to 20th century CE

• Wood

• Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)

• Olowe of Ise

• Yoruba peoples

• c. 1910-1914 CE

• Wood and pigment