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JENNE CULTURE FIGURE
12-1500 AD
Fired clay
Terra cotta
Probably a married couple
He has a beard (shows he is an adult)
The man in behind her
Thick inverted lips (normal)
Pointed bald head
They are molded and stuck on
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SEATED MALE FIGURE
Jenne
1200-1500
Hands on head (showing lamenting) |
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HORSE AND RIDER:
1200-1500
Its been restored
The horse looks small in comparison to the rider
The horse is proof of the riders status
They pay lots of attention to the tack of the horse
The rider has a quiver on his back
There is a knife tied on |
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A PENDANT OF SOME SORT
One of the most complete ones know
It has copper plugs pounded into it
There are loops for suspension at the top
The thumbs are the loops
Figure in between the arms
The things with the holes in them may be weapons
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BRONZE ORNAMENT
5 1/2" tall
There was a loop on the top
Normal seated pose
Lips and nose have been worn down
Breech cloth
Scarification patterns on his thighs
Normal seated position
It realates to the ceramic figures
1200-1500
Jenne
Brass
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BURNISHED POT
Grey and cream decoration
Some texture
Grave goods |
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TOGUNA
Provides cultural backbone
Caste system (farmer-blacksmith)
The house of words
Where the elders meet out of the range of women
They assemble the posts with lintels and then pile brush on top
The brush insulates them and makes them cool
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STANDING WOMAN
Bald
Bracelet
Ornate breach cloth thing
Necklace
Legs are thicker than natural
Big ears
Lots of detail on the face
Holding a broken face
Function unknown
1200-1500
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MALE HEAD REST
Talem
1300-1500
Grave goods
Pillow it doesn't mess up your hair
It you do it right you will hit a nerve under you ear that makes u sleepy
Hard heavy and eroded |
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WOMAN’S HEAD PAD
Talem
1300-1500
to carry a load around |
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BURIAL FIGURES
13-1500
Talem
Knelling in
Early things are in hard wood, more rounded and more realistic proportions, they are more rounded curved, sometimes asymetrical and detailed
Later things are sometimes in soft wood
Female
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Dogom
Realistic
Hands are typical for dogom (one open one closed)
Late
Longer with rounder leg
Bent joints
When they are standing they are probably fabulous ancestors |
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Shrine pieces
17-18000
Dogom
Mother and child together
Her holding the baby is the only asymmetry
Long and gentle figure
Testifies to the woman’s capability
Kept in house of clan head
Point of contact to ancestors |
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Shrine piece
17-18000
Dogom
Woman and churn
Long and gentle figure
Testifies to the woman’s capability
Kept in house of clan head
Point of contact to ancestors |
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She sits on a stool supported by Namo
More symmetrical
Legs are getting shorter and shorter
And limbs are more jointed
Late Dogom
Early 19th cent
Kid on her back |
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Grave figure
It is older
Lack of detail and figures (islam influence)
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Grave figure
Recent 20th century
Hands in front of tummy reps pregnancy or desire for it
Has a lebret
Bullet shaped head
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Dogom
Method of communicating with ancestors
On a horse
19-20t century
Wood
Monozilous
Hand is up the iron spear is goine
Horse is smaller than it wood be
Culture hero |
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Horse and rider on the lid are one piece of the wood the bowl is another
Prestige oriented item
High status people would be served with this |
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Painted and used for one time use until recently
Masks are for Dama (funerary rite) 1 year for every one that has died
Worn by men’s seceret society
Wamu (antelope)
Black and white mineral paint in soft wood
Boxy face
Horns tell you it’s an antelope |
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Rabbit mask (ears and black and white finger painted spots)
Soft wood
Made by who ever is going to wear it
Honoring the spirit
Worn by men’s secret society |
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Canaga
Represents the world
Duality
Upper world our world and lower world
Honorns dead ancestors
Doma |
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Satimba
Wild woman who stole all the dogom masks from the Tolem
Infertile woman only honorary man
Her stuff was kept away from the village |
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Granary door
Dogom
Nothing is more important the granary (ancestral protection)
2 pieces of wood held together with iron staples and lock and bolt
Not monozygolos
20th cent |
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Man beer pot
He would make it himself
He put paired dots on the N, S, E, W
Shows namo symbolism
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Shrine figure
Bamana
These are left by women at the doors of shrines
Women won’t wear masks anywhere in Africa
Eroded
1700s
A husband for one of the female figures
Soft and asymmetrical
Made from hard wood |
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Figure
Woman holding breasts in sign of fertility
Pig tails are Bamana
Old figure with soft curves and naturalistic
Hard wood |
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Bamana
Early 1800s
Woman with child on her lap
Thighs are sort and calves are long
Small head
Only asymmetry is the baby |
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1930s chin less
Aggressive
Weird looking
Black figure
Buick bumper breasts (Straight out)
Big hands that are flat
Bamana |
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Styalized woman
Bamana
Pointy breasts
Pig tails
Wood but looks metal
This is woman
On a pedestal
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Protective mask
Bamana
N’tamo (boys initiation society)
Mask worn by the person who protects the boys
The horns on top refer to clan myths
Antelope on top for fertility |
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Mask from Korae group
Hyena mask that wards off mask (police mask to keep away hostile uninitiated beings)
Woods
Charred surface (with poker to make it black)
Rubbed with charcoal and palm oil
Doesn’t look like a hyena
Its buldging foredeah, its bla |
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Korae rite guardian mask
Lion |
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Fankuru
Antelope head piece (not mask)
Plank like
Very thin
Vertical style
They are danced by best farmer in two different villages
Chyara (male head pieces): taught bamana people how to farm
They honor him by dancing his magic in the field
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Fankuru
Bamana
Male female pair
She has young fawn on her back
Fawn is more decorated
Fawn has open work neck
Vertical style |
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Chyara mask
Horizontal style |
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Chyara mask
It is standing on another animal
Is farming beast it is abstract |
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Woven cloth
BoBo
Women did the weaving |
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BOBO/ bwa
Bobo/anua
Bobo/bobo
Burkina Faso (country)
This is Bobo/ Bwa
Men’s organization mask
Very abstract
Soft wood
Checker board and black white is duelality balance
Owl that impales witches
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Butterfly BOBO Bwa mask (more sculptural)
Associated with fertility
Has owl beak to impale witches
Soft wood |
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BOBO/UNA buffllo mask
Police mask
More sculptureal
Horns
Half helmt
Soft wood
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BOBO/BOBO maks
White faced (reps spirit)
2 antelope horns at the top
In hard wood
Its replaceing older basketry type |
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