Arts of the Global South Exam 3

-Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Polynesia

-Moai

-1200 CE.

-British Museum

-Pacific Island

-carved while in ground (rock)

-carvings on back added after 1400 CE

Hoa Hakananai'a (lost or stolen friend)

statue, typically depicting an ancestor

Moai (mo-eye)

-Tonga

-Ha'apai Islands, Polynesia,

-early 19 th Century

- female sprit that provide guidance

-Mana

Female Figure

- a supernatural power associated with high-rank, divinity, maintenance of social order and social reproduction, as well as an abundance of water and fertility of the land

Mana

-fly whisk

-Austral Islands,

-early-mid 19th C

-link 2 spirit/ancestor realm (highway)

-made of human hair and coconut fiber

-spinning vortex to draw the gods to the earth

Tahiri

- light/human realm

Ao

-dark/spiritual or ancestral realm

Po

-indigenous culture of new zeleand

-practiced body adornment

Maori

-Auckland, 1994

-body of ancestor

-creation: sky and earth on top of each other, trees created space

Painted Histories

-amo

-Aotearoa (New Zealand)

-Maori

-1800

-three fingers/toes, intimidation

-carvings refer to tattoos

House post figure

-Lintel (pare) with the goddess of death

-Maori

-early 19th C

-children come from the dark into the light

-found on top of doorways

-squatting position

-Figure of Lono (god of peace)

-Hawaii

-end 18th C

-spine is protecting (head and neck)

-thorns (count back ancestors)

-sisi fale

-overskirt

-Tonga, Polynesia

-1773

-coconut fibers, whale teeth/bone, seashells, feathers

-Bart cloth textile

-red-breasted musk parrot

-Feather cape

-pre-1892

-Hawaii, Polynesia

-bird feather

-red shows high status

-Mana

-Gottfired Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene

-1890

-portrait, named after merchant Thomas Walker

wanted to increase his peoples wealth

-cape made of kiwi feathers

-Faradje, DRC

-1912

-African Art

-modern elements (chair, umbrella, cowboy hat)

-rural areas are isolated from community (false)

African Women,

-Congo

-1920

-no labels on items

-African Art

Expedition

-Okondo's Great Hall

-Mangbetu

-1913

-Chapin and Lang funded

-power demised in 20th C

-Nenzima, principal wife of Chief Okondo

-1910

-Mangbetu

-cranial modifications

-beauty, power, and royalty

-Mangbetu Harp

-ivory

-okapi hide with fur

-1914

- Azande inspired

-Mangbetu Harp

-Wood

-hide

-1860s

-rivals to Mangbetu

-Kongo peoples

-19th C

-Metropolitan Museum of Art

-changes overtime

-put hair and clothes to symbolize connection

Power Figure, Nkisi N'Kondi: Mangaaka

-ritual specialist

Nganga/banganga

-medicines with metaphorical significance that link the client with the spirit

Bilongo

-Kongo peoples

-pre 1885

-National Museum van Wereldculturen, Netherlands

-Priestess engaged with forces from the land of the dead/ancestors

-relates to female priest (healer of physical dysfunction)

Power Figure: Kneeling Female with Serpents and Secondary Figures

-collected in 1874

-Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin

-Baptism of Manikongo Nzinga on May 3, 1491, and adoption of Catholicism as Kongo's official state religion

Vili, Crucifixion Plaque

-Kuba king in 17th Century

-collected in 1910

Ndop of Shamba Bolongongo (Shyaam the Great)

L: King's sleeping room

R: Kuba King, Nyim Mbop 1947

Integration of motifs on textiles an architecture

-Kuba cloth

-20thCentury

-Dem Rep of Congo

-bronze

-extensive archelogy record

Igbo-Ukwu

-Igbo Ukwu

-700-1020

-body not touching ground (too powerful)

-founder gave some artifacts away

Reproduction of burial chamber

-Igbo-Ukwu

-700-1020

-body adornment

-trade goods (economic status)

Plan of burial chamber

- Cement monument in Oreri to the Eze Nri

who died in 1944

-Igbo, elephant tusk, horn, of stick (praying staff), etc

-stop disputes

-Pot stand with female and male figures

-Igbo-Ukwu

-9th-11th C

-bronze

-elaborate necklace, hair, and bracelets show status

-goes on top of head

important Yoruba city (site of origin)

Yoruba worldview: place where all humankind originated

Ife

-Portrait of the Oni

-Ife

-13-14th

-Bronze

-Nigerian Museum

-Oni=king of Ife

-necklace shows wealth

-IHead of an Oni

-fe

-12th-15th C

-zinc, brass

-incomplete sculpture

-contemporary Nigeria

-highly populated

-king linked to Ife origin (overlap of kingdoms)

-13th C

Benin

-18th C

-Brass

-Attah of Idah or oranmiyan

Equestrian Figure

-Foundation of 2nd (and current dynasty)

-arrived from Ife/north

Oranmiyan

Challenged Benin politically Oba Esigie, repulsed the invasion, then conquered Idah

Attah of Idah

Blend of European and local clothing

Oba Esigie

-Benin Oba Head

-brass

-19th C

-regard brass red on color (danger and power to drive away forces)

-material never rust (permanence of the kingship)

-Shiny surface is considered beautiful (polished daily)

-Commissioned by the new oba after death

-Benin royal tusk

-19th C

-white (spirituality, purity, peace)

-a tusk emanating from the head

-Carvings of warriors, court officials, past obas,animals, and various symbolic objects

-Oglinye mask

-overmeddled skull

-Idoma

-19th C

-challenges traditions

-worn on top of head after victory

(Phase1)

-Oglinye mask

-overmeddled skull

-Idoma

-19th C

-animal skin

-1917 ban

(Phase2)

-Ekoi skin-covered Oglinye mask

-overmeddled skull

-Idoma

-20th C

-shown in most museums

(Phase3)

-Egungun Masquerade

-Nigeria

-Cloth, metalic thread, glass beads, cowrie shells.

-yoruba, oyo region

-worn by men

-cleanse the community

-imported fabric

-Egungun Headdress (hunter)

19th-20thcentury

-Yoruba, Nigeria

-Wood, pigment.

-Fowler Museum at UCLA

-hunter=hairnot (magical power)

-Efe Glede headdress

-19th-20th century

-Yoruba

-Wood, pigment, meta

-male performer

-Great Mother=bonds between gender wants her to bless with good health and prevent diseases (female power)

Sande society mask, Mende people, SierraLeone, 19th C. Wood and raffia.

female initiation