Nigeria
Nok 500 Bc - AD 200
Ife 1000 - 1400
Benin 1200-1700
Mali
Djenne 1000 - 1400
Sapi 1400-1500
South Africa & Zimbabwe
Lydenburg 500 - 700
Great Zimbabwe 1000- 1400
TERMS
Pictographs
Petroglyphs
Oni - Ifi ruler or king
Oba - Benin ruler or king
Lost wax casting
Terracotta
Mosque
Door Panel. Wood. Africa. Nigeria. Yoruba. Ekiti Area. Olowe of Ise. 19th/20th
C. Meeting between the King of Ikere and Captain Ambrose.
SLIDES
Nigeria
Nok (500 BC - AD 200)
Nok head, Terracotta, from Jemaa, Nigeria, 12 1/2” Ca. 500 - 200 BC
Ife (Eleventh - Fifteenth Centuries)King from Ife, Oni, Zinc brass, 37cm Ca.
1400
Head of Oni, Bronze, 36 cm Ca. 950 - 1150
Benin (Thirteenth - Eighteenth Century Ivory belt mask of Queen
Mother, Ivory & Iron, 9 3/4” Ca. 1550
Commemorative Head of Queen Mother, (Iyoba), Copper & Iron, 15 1 / 2”
ca. 1500
Ruler with Retainers, Pillar decoration of Palace, Bronze, 19 1/2” Ca.
1550-1680
Horn Player, Bronze, 24 7/8” Ca. 1500 - 1600
Mali
Eastern Facade of Friday Mosque, Djenne (in book) ca. 1200
Sierra Leone
Sapi (Fifteenth - Sixteenth Centuries)
Saltcellar, Ivory, Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, 13” ca. 1500
Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe (Eleventh - Fifteenth Centuries) Stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe
(in book) ca. 1400
Links:
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