Gardner Chapters 31 and 32

Art of Oceania
and
Later African Art



Vocabulary and Images
Art of Oceania

X-ray style 
malanggan
moai
bai


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
Micronesia
*Men's ceremonial house (bai), at Airai, Belau, Republic of Belau

Dilukai, Belau (Palau), wood, pigment, fiber

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

 Australia

*Auuenau, from Western Arnhem Land, 1913

Later African Art
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 
 


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.