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Indigenous America: Stokstad chapter 12 & 23 Art of the Americas Before 1300 & Art of the Americas After 1300 Africa: Stokstad chapter 13 & 25 Art of Ancient Africa & Art of Africa in the Modern Area The Pacific: Stokstad chapter 24 Art of the Pacific Cultures. Mossi culture
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Indigenous America: Stokstad chapter 12 & 23 • Art of the Americas Before 1300 & Art of the Americas After 1300 • Africa: Stokstad chapter 13 & 25 • Art of Ancient Africa & Art of Africa in the Modern AreaThe Pacific: Stokstad chapter 24 • Art of the Pacific Cultures
Mossi culture doll from Burkina Faso mid-20th century wood
spirit figure– botebaLobi culture, Burkina Faso 19th century wood
pair of spirit spouses– blolo bla Baule culture, Cote d’Ivorie early 20th century wood
Yoruba head of a king c. 13th century CE zinc brass
Yoruba head said to represent the Usurper c. 1200-1300 CE terra cotta
Benin Early Period memorial head c. 1400-1550 CE brass
Pueblos Anasazi culture c. 900-1230 CE
Sarcophagus lid in the tomb of Lord Pacalfrom the Temple of the Inscriptionsc. 683 CEPalenque, Mexico This image records Lord Pacal’s death and rebirth— “like the setting sun, Lord Pacal will rise again to rejoin the gods after falling into the underworld” (Stokstad, 460)….sounds a little bit like the journey that Christ takes—he dies on Good Friday and is resurrected bodily on Easter… In this image Lord Pacal is balanced between the spirit world and earth.
Temple of the Inscriptions Mayan 5th-7th century CEPalenque, Mexico
Maori meetinghouse New Zealand 1842-43 wood, shell, grass, flax, pigments
Moai ancestor figures Easter Island, Polynesia c. 1000-1500
Moai ancestor figures Easter Island, Polynesia c. 1000-1500
Moai ancestor figures Easter Island, Polynesia c. 1000-1500
Inka Masonry: Machu Picchu, Peru 1450-1530