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What are the key elements and materials?

 

Do you see cross-cultural connections in the works?

 

What subject matter might you interpret as specific to a culture?

Punu. Mask for the Okuyi Society (Mukudj), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 9 7/8 x 7 x 6in. (25.1 x 17.8 x 15.2cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.225. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 22.225_SL1_edited_version.jpg)

Face Mask, Ogoni Peoples, Nigeria. 20th century. Wood & pigment. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

Mask (kifwebe), Songye people. 19th Century. Wood & Grass. Democratic Republic of Congo. British Museum, London.

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Africa

Mask, Anaktuvuk Pass. c. 1960. Animal hide. Anchorage Museum. Anchorage. 

Cupik Mask. 20th Century.Wood and Feathers. Anchorage Museum. Amchorage.

Dancing Bu. Yup'ik Mask. 2013. Wood and metal, etc. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage.

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Alaska

Leopard stool (royal seat), Ivory Coast. 20th Centir. Wood and pigment. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.

Statuette of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin. Assyrian. 8th Century B.C.E. Ivory. The Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Standing Bull Statue. Southwestern Arabia. Mid-1st Millenium B.C.E. Bronze. The Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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Middle East

Paddle Dance. Eyak or Tlingit. 1918. Wood, paint. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage. 

Figurine, St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Prehistoric. Ivory. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage. 

Haida Totem Pole. 1882. Wood and paint. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. 

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Alaska

Did you see signs of Cross-cultural connection?

 

Native Alaskan art has commonality with these regions.

 

 

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 Did you guess the region correctly?

 

 

 

Recognizing key components  like materials used, subject matter, style