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Prior to 9400 BCE, Niger-Congo speakers independently created and used matured ceramic technology [27] [28] (e.g., pottery, pots) to contain and cook grains (e.g., Digitaria exilis, pearl millet); [27] [29] ethnographically and historically, West African women have been the creators of pottery in most West African ceramic traditions [30] [31 ...
The study of African art until recently focused on the traditional art of certain well-known groups on the continent, with a particular emphasis on traditional sculpture, masks and other visual culture from non-Islamic West Africa, Central Africa, [16] and Southern Africa with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Recently ...
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Mask from Gabon Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago.Female (left) and male, vertical styles. Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas.
The earliest history of pottery production in the Fertile Crescent starts the Pottery Neolithic and can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period (7000–6500 BC), the Halaf period (6500–5500 BC), the Ubaid period (5500–4000 BC), and the Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). By about 5000 BC pottery-making was becoming widespread ...
African Red Slip flagons and vases, 2nd-4th century AD A typical plain African Red Slip dish with simple rouletted decoration. 4th century. African red slip ware, also African Red Slip or ARS, is a category of terra sigillata, or "fine" Ancient Roman pottery produced from the mid-1st century AD into the 7th century in the province of Africa Proconsularis, specifically that part roughly ...
Africa Explores: 20th-Century African Art. Center for African Art, 1994. Woodward, Richard B. African Art: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum, 2000. Roberts, Allen F., et al. Animals in African Art: from the Familiar to the Marvelous. The Museum for African Art, 1995. "Baga - Art & Life in Africa - The University of Iowa Museum of Art."
A Decorative Mangbetu Pot from the Brooklyn Museum. The Mangbetu is African tribe part of Democratic Republic of the Congo, living in the Orientale Province.The people of this tribe produced a large variety of highly developed art and music, such as harps, guitars, pots, and other crafts. [1]