Unit 6: Africa

• Concial tower & circular wall of Great Zimbabwe

• Shona people

• Southeastern Zimbabwe

• Coursed granite blocks

• c.1000-1400 C.E.

• Great Mosque of Djenné

• Sudano-Sahelian

• Mali

• Adobe

• c. 1200 C.E. rebuilt 1906

• Wall plaque from Oba’s Palace

• Edo peoples

• Benin Nigeria

• Cast brass

• 16th century C.E.

• Golden Stool

• Ashanti peoples

• Ghana

• Gold over wood and cast-gold attachments

• c. 1700 C.E.

• Ndop portrait figure

• Kuba peoples

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Wood

• c. 1760-1780 CE

• Power figure

• Kongo peoples

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Wood and metal

• c. late 19th-early 20th century C.E.

• Pwo mask

• Chokwe peoples

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal

• Late 19th-early 20th century C.E.

• Mblo mask

• Baule peoples

• Cote d’Ivoire

• Wood and pigment

• late 19th-early 20th century C.E.

• Bundu mask

• Sande Society, Mende people

• West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia

• Wood, cloth, and fiber

• 19th-20th century C.E.

• Ikenga shrine figure

• Igbo peoples

• Nigeria

• Wood

• c. 19th-20th century C.E.

• Lukasa memory board

• Mbudye Society, Luba people

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Wood, beads, and metal

• c. 19th-20th century C.E.

• Aka elephant mask

• Bamileke

• Cameroon, western grassfields regions

• Wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads

• c. 19th to 20th century C.E.

• Byeri Reliquary figrue

• Fang peoples

• Southern Cameroon

• Wood

• c. 19th to 20th century C.E.

• Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife

• Olowe of Ise; yoruba peoples

• Nigeria

• Wood and pigment

• c. 1910-1914 C.E.