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Inland West African Art ARTHIST 345-01/AAAS 348-01/ICS 223-01/ AFRICAN ART: FROM ROYAL COURT TO CONTEMPORARY MARKETPLACE INLAND WEST AFRICAN ART September 7, 2021 Left: Bamana peoples (Mali), Cultivator’s headdress (chiwara), 20th century. Wood. Left: Abraham Cresques, Catalan Atlas of the known world (mapamundi), depicting Emperor Mansa Musa of Mali with gold crown, sceptre, & orb, 1375. Ink, color & gold leaf on vellum. Right: Eliot Elisofon, Two men talking at the cloth-selling section of the market, Bamako, Mali, 1959. Photograph. Film still, Yeelen (Mali, 1987. Souleymane Cisse, director). Map of Inland West Africa. Left: Map of the Niger River and the proximate communities. Right: Map of the archaeological sites in and around the Inland Niger Delta region. Jenné - Jenno (Mali) Left: Archaeological finds, Jenné, Mali. Right: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Warrior Figure, 13th century. Terracotta. Above: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Seated Figure, 13th century. Terracotta. Right: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Kneeling figure with snakes,, 13th century. Terracotta. Left: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Archer figure, 13th century. Terracotta. Above: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Equestrian figure, 13th century. Terracotta. Left: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Embracing figures, 13th century. Terracotta. Right: Jenné-Jenno civilization (Inland Niger Delta region, Mali), Reclining Male figure, 13th century. Terracotta. Above: Map of the Niger River and the proximate communities. Right: Maps of the archaeological sites between the Niger River and the Benue River in Central Nigeria. Archaeological excavation site for Nok civilization, Nigeria. Nok (Nigeria) Left: Nok civilization (Nigeria), “The Dinya Head,” 500 BCE – 200 CE. Terracotta. Right: Nok civilization (Nigeria), “The Jemaa Head,” 500 BCE – 200 CE. Terracotta. Nok civilization (Nigeria), Elephant Head, 500 BCE – 200 CE. Terracotta. Left: Nok civilization (Nigeria), Kneeling Beaded Figure, 500 BCE – 200 CE. Terracotta. Right: Nok civilization (Nigeria), Fragment of a Figure, 500 BCE – 200 CE. Terracotta. Dogon (Mali) Above: Dogon peoples (Mali), Seated couple, 18th – early 19th century. Wood. Upper right: Dogon granary with decorative door, Mali, 20th century. Lower right: Men’s meeting house (togu na) with decorative posts, Mali, 20th century. Left: Photo of a Kanaga masked dancer, Sangha, Mali, 2008. Center: Dogon peoples (Mali), Figure (nommo), late 19th century. Wood, encrustation. Right: Dogon peoples (Mali), Female figure with eleven heads, late 19th century. Wood. Bamana (Mali) Left: Bamana peoples (Mali), Female figure, 20th century. Wood, cowrie shell. Center: Bamana peoples (Mali), Female figure, 20th century. Wood. Right: Bamana peoples (Mali), Mother and Child (Gwandusu), late 19th century. Wood. Clockwise from lower left: Bamana peoples (Mali), Spiritually charged object (boli), 20th century. Wood, encrustation. Bamana peoples (Mali), Mask (kore), 20th century. Wood, pigment. Bamana peoples (Mali), Mask (kone), 20th century. Wood, encrustation. Bamana peoples (Mali), Cultivator mask (chiwara), late 19th century. Wood, beads. Bwa & Mossi (Burkina Faso & Mali) Left: Photo of a plank mask (nwantantay) being danced among the Bwa peoples (Burkina Faso & Mali), 20th century. Right: Mossi peoples (Burkina, Faso), Mask (karanga), 20th century. Wood. Senufo (Cote d’Ivoire, Mali & Burkina Faso) Clockwise from lower left: Senufo people (Cote d’Ivoire), Ritual pounder sculpture (pombia), late 19th century. Wood. Senufo peoples (Cote d’Ivoire), Hornbill figure (Porpianong), 20th century. Wood, pigment. Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata), whose distribution throughout West Africa is predominately in Liberia & Cote d’Ivoire. Senufo peoples (Cote d’Ivoire), Helmet mask (Kponyugu), 20th century. Wood. Architecture Left & high above: Dogon peoples (Mali), Cliff-side adobe architecture within the Bandiagara escarpment, Mali, 20th century. Immediately above: Dogon peoples (Mali), Residential adobe building with vegetal and animal sacrifices on the roof and facade, 20th century. Above and right: Views of the decorative, interlocking Hausa designed, low relief facades of two buildings, Zaria, Nigeria, 20th century. Left: Mandinka peoples (Mali), Dougouba Mosque, 12th century. Below: Mandinka peoples (Burkina Faso), Grand Mosque, Bobo- Dioulasso, 1880-1893. Above: Dagomba peoples (Ghana), Larabanga Mosque, 13th century. Right: Roy Sieber, Keeper of the Larabanga Mosque, Ghana, 1967. Photograph. Maps of West Africa, showing geographic region where Mande- and Gur-speaking peoples live. Textiles Above: Photograph of a market scene, Dakar, Senegal, 2000s. Right: Detail of “Arkilla” design for bed cover, Mali, West Africa. Handspun and dyed cotton. Above left: Tellem peoples, Mali, Fragment of a blanket, 11th century CE. Cotton; Above right: Unknown Saharan nomads (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria), Detail of mural depicting women wrapped in cloth and riding oxen, 2000 BCE. Natural pigments on stone. Above: Abbé David Boilat, Mandinka Marabout, 1853. Hand- colored lithograph. Right: Anonymous, Afrique Occidentale – Senegal – Fileur de coton, early 20th century. Postcard photograph. Fulani peoples (located across the inland West Africa region), Chief’s Blanket, 19th century. Cotton & wool. Hausa peoples (Burkina Faso, Nigeria) Blanket, late 19th century. Cotton. Left: Photo of a Malian women inserting resist patterns for a mud-cloth designed textile. Right: Sarah Brett-Smith, Nansun Suko and Araba Diarra wearing post- excision mud-cloth wrappers, Salimata Kone, Kolokani, Mali, 1977. Photograph. Below: Sarah Brett-Smith, Beledugu hunter wearing a shirt painted with the “Piece of a gourd” (Filen koloni) mud-cloth design, Salimata Kone, Kolokani, Mali, 1978. Dogon peoples (Mali), Hunter’s Shirt with charms, 20th century. Cotton, shells, fiber, animal materials, etc..
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