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Ethnographic Ethnographic ArtArt
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Aboriginal Bark Painting
Boy's shirt—Crow Tribe
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Head of a King from 17th c. Nigeria, Edo, Benin City. Bronze
Inca Princess (Gran Ñusta Mama
Occollo)Denver Art Museum
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WebsitesGeneral Art History
• Art History Resources on the Webhttp://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html from Sweet Briar CollegeLists of art history resources subdivided by time period
• Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm from Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu from University of California at Santa BarbaraCategories include art history, cultural studies, anthropology, and archeology
Selected Museum Sites
• Bowers Museum of Cultural Art http://www.bowers.org
• Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology http://www.peabody.harvard.edu from Harvard University
• Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum
• Smithsonian Institution
1. National Museum of Natural History http://www.mnh.si.edu
2. National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu
3. National Museum of African Art http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html
Selected Sites for Anthropology/Archeology/Ethnography
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm from American Anthropological Assoc.
• CSA Guide to Archaeological Projects http://csanet.org/index.html from Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology
• Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari
• Resources in Ethnographic Studies http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html from Library of Congress, American Folklife Center
• UCSB Department of Anthropology Links Directory http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/links/pages from Anthropology Dept, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
• Art and Life in Africa Online http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html from Univ. of Iowa
Revised JR: H: Ethnographic Art Handout Revised 09/07
Head of a King, 17th century Nigeria, Edo, Benin City, Bronze• Location
– Benin City– Nigeria– Africa
• Time period– 17th Century
• Medium– Bronze– Lost-wax casting
• Subject– Royalty– Ruler OR King OR Oba– Kingdom
• Purpose– Ritual – Altar
• Related Ideas– Headdress– Cleveland Museum of Art
Ideas taken from description of object on Cleveland of Art Museum website