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Gardner Chapters 31 and 32
Art
of Oceania
and
Later
African Art
Vocabulary and Images
Art of Oceania
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X-ray style
malanggan
moai
bai
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Melanesia
| Yam Mask, Abelam tribe, Maprik district,
papua New Guinea
*Bisjpoles,
Irian Jaya, New Guineaearly to mid-20th century
*Ceremonial
Men's House, Iatmul, Papua New
Guinea,
1970
Tatanua mask, New Ireland,
wood, shell, lime
and fiber
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Micronesia
| *Men's ceremonial house
(bai), at
Airai,
Belau, Republic of Belau
Dilukai, Belau
(Palau), wood, pigment,
fiber
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Polynesia
| Decorated bark cloth with two-bird (manulua)
designs, Tonga, 1967
Head of a staff god,
from Rarotonga,
Cook Islands (Hawaii), late 18th- early 19th-century.
Feather Cloak,
Hawaii, early 19th c.
Kuka'ilimoku (war
god), temple image,
Hawaii, wood
Interior viewof
meeting house, Mataatua,
built by Wepiha Apanui, 1874
*Moai, Anakena,
Rapa Nui (Easter Island),
10th-12th century, stone
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Australia
| *Auuenau, from Western Arnhem
Land,
1913 |
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| Reliquary Guardian figure
(Mbulu-Ngulu),
Kota, Gabon, 19th-20th c.
*Nail figure (nikisi nkode), Kongo culture,
19th c., wood & mixed media
Seated couple, Dogon,
Mali, ca. 1800-50
Male and female figures, probably
bush
spirits (asye usu), Baule, Cote d'Ivoire, late 19th to early
20th
century.
Osei Bonsu, akua'ba,
Asante, Ghana,
ca. 1935
Olowe of Ise, Veranda post ,
carved
for the Chief of Akure, Yoruba, Nigeria, ca. 1900-38.
Female mask, Mende,
Sierra Leone, 20th
century
Mytholical ancestor mask
(ngady amwaash),
Kuba, Democratic Republic of Congo (1890-1910)
Thunder god Amadioha and his
wife, sculptures
in the Mbari, Igbo, Nigeria, photographed 1966
Togu na (men's "house of
words"), Dogon, Mali,
1989
Paa Joe, Coffin in shape of
airplane and cow, from Ghana, 2000
Trigo Piula, Ta Tele,
from Democratic
Republic of Congo, 1988
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
| Discuss the 'yam cult' of
Melanesia and how the Tamberan House functions
in the rituals associated with it.
Compare how the deceased are commemorated in the various
Pacific
Cultures (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia).
Discuss the various themes represented in African art of
the modern
period.
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