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1 Global Prehistory images 1-11

2 Content: Context: Form: Function Terms: Themes:
1. Apollo 11 stones. Namibia. C.25,500-25,300 BCE Charcoal on stone 4 ½” x 5”

3 Content: Context: Form: Function Terms: Themes:
2. Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. 15,000-13,000 BCE. Rock Painting

4 Form Context Content Function Themes Terms
3. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14,000-7,000 BCE Bone

5 Form Context Content Function Themes Terms
4. Running horned woman. Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria. 6,000-4,000 BCE Pigment on rock

6 Form Content Context Function Terms Themes 5. Bushel with ibex motifs. Susa, Iran BCE Painted terra cotta Neolithic

7 Content Form Context Function Terms Themes
6. Anthropomorphic stele. Arabian Peninsula. Fourth millennium BCE sandstone

8 Form Content Function Context Terms Themes 7. Jade cong. Liangzhu, China ,300-2,200 BCE carved jade

9 Form Content Function Context Terms Themes )

10 Form Content Function Context Terms Themes
9. The Ambun Stone, Ambun Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea c.1500 BCE, Greywacke

11 Form Content Function Context Terms Themes
10. Tlatilco female figure. Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco, BCE Ceramic

12 Form Content Function Context Terms Themes 11. Terra cotta fragment. Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reef Islands BCE terra cotta (incised)

13 Ancient Mediterranean images 12-47

14 174. Portrait mask (Mblo). Baule peoples (Cote d’Ivoire).
Form Individual portrait that is naturalistic and abstract, Content Individual portrait expressing beauty, respect for Function Mblo performance Context Performance Themes Portraiture Private and Public Terms Mblo 174. Portrait mask (Mblo). Baule peoples (Cote d’Ivoire). Early 20th century CE Wood and pigment. (2 images). Baule Portrait Mask of Moya Yanso (ca ) by Owie Kimou (d. 1948) Height: 14 1/4 in (36.2 cm)

15 Content Form Function Context Terms Themes
Idealized beauty and moral goodness combined, danced by a young woman, knowledge of dance. Zone 1: neck rolls Zone 2: face (small mouth, high forehead, nearly closed eyes, scarification on cheeks (though not found on Mende people) Zone 3: complex coiffures, many elements can be added (horns, animals, Form Three zones, Function Masquerade or performance called Bundu or Sowei, Life Transition, Moral Guidance Context Kept private until performed, Terms Bundu/Sowei Mende Raffia Sande Themes Gender Beauty Ritual Water 175. Bundu Mask. Sande Society, Mende peoples (West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia). 19th to 20th century CE Wood, cloth, and fiber. (2 images).

16 Content Form Function Context Themes Religion/Sacred Terms
Male Power, Personal Large horns (often ram), right hand often holds sword, left hand often holds severed head, often seated, surfaces encrusted from , can be attended to daily with offernings Form Tall, abstracted male figure Function Igbo Personal Shrine Figure Context Personal Shrine, Igbo public shrines such as Themes Religion/Sacred Moveable Shrine Male Power Terms Igbo Ikenga Shrine 176. Ikenga (shrine figure). Igbo peoples (Nigeria). c.19th to 20th century CE Wood.

17 Form Wood, beads, metal Content Function Context Themes Terms
Divination Board Royal History Context Themes History Terms Luba Lukasa Mdudye Society 177. Lukasa (memory board). Mdudye Society, Luba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). c.19th and 20th century CE Wood, beads, and metal. (2 images).

18 Content Form Context Function Terms Themes
Geometric beading on long, vertical fabric, large round ears, highly stylized Context Performance Function Royal Power Terms Aka Bamileke Themes Royal Power Performance of Power Men Society 178. Aka elephant mask. Bamileke (Cameroon, western grassfields region). c.19th to 20th century CE wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads. (2 images)

19 Form Content Function Context Terms Themes
Bilateral Symmetry, Stylized Geometric shapes, Content Function Guardian of ancestral bones in container Context Terms Byeri Fang Reliquary Figure Themes Death Ancestral Spirits 179. Reliquary figure (byeri). Fang peoples (southern Cameroon). c.19th to 20th century CE wood

20 Content Form Function Context Terms Esu/Eshu Olowe of Ise Opo Ogoga
King seated on throne, senior wife behind, junior wife at his feet, trickster Esu playing the flute Form Function Architectural Sculpture Context Was one of four carved posts by Olowe of Ise for the royal palace at Ikere Terms Esu/Eshu Olowe of Ise Opo Ogoga Palace at Ikere Yoruba Themes Royal Power Royal Family 180. Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga). Olowe of Ise (Yoruba peoples). c CE Wood and pigment.

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