Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

been abandoned throughout much of eastern Polynesia, although its use in rituals (for example, as a wrap for corpses of deceased ...

T hroughout Oceanic cultures, body decoration was an important means of representing cultural and personal identity. In addition ...

Hawaii The Hawaiians developed the most highly stratified social structure in the Pacific. By 1795 the chief Kamehameha unified ...

Kuka’ilimoku sculpture illustrated here (FIG. 33-19) stood in a heiau (temple) on the island of Hawaii, where Kamehameha I origi ...

CLIFF WHITINGLargely as a result of colonial and missionary intervention in the 18th through 20th centuries, many Oceanic cul- t ...

AUSTRALIA AND MELANESIA ❚The westernmost Oceanic islands have been populated for at least 40,000 years, but most of the preserve ...

34-1Ancestral screen (nduen fobara), Kalabari Ijaw, Nigeria, late 19th century. Wood, fiber, and cloth, 3 9 –^12 high. British ...

A frica (MAP34-1) was one of the first art-producing regions of the world (see Chapters 1 and 15), but its early history remains ...

MAP34-1Africa in the early 21st century. 890 Chapter 34 AFRICA AFTER 1800 and movement patterns of San hunters and gatherers, of ...

duction. The reliquary figures play an important role in ancestor wor- ship. Among both the Fang and the peoples scholars usuall ...

KOTA MBULU NGULUThe Kota of Gabon also have reliquary guardian figures, called mbulu ngulu(FIG. 34-4). These figures have severe ...

king’s throne. The throne (FIG. 34-5) that belonged to King Nsangu (r. 1865–1872 and 1885–1887) is a masterpiece of Bamum art. I ...

of them, and others have been used by women’s organizations to treat infertility, but the function of this 19th-century pfemba i ...

divine, or understand, the will of unseen spirits as well as their needs or prophecies, which the diviner passes on to clients. ...

SHRINE OF EWEKA IIIn 1897, when the British sacked Benin City, there were still 17 shrines to ancestors in the Benin royal palac ...

objects, symbols, colors, and materials comprising this shrine con- tribute both visually and ritually to the imaging of royal p ...

LINGUIST’S STAFFBonsu also carved the gold-covered wood sculpture (FIG. 34-13) that depicts two men sitting at a table of food. ...

Senufo The Senufo peoples of the western Sudan region in what is now northern Côte d’Ivoire have a population today of more than ...

transition, a rite of passage parallel to that undergone by all men during their years of Poro socialization. When an important ...

rates this legend. Satimbe masks consist of a roughly rectangular cov- ering for the head with narrow rectangular openings for t ...