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101 Cards in this Set
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Hiberno-Saxon Art Style
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Like Woven vines or ribbon
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Millefiori
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Glass work technique
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Illuminating Manuscripts
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Brightly colored/decorated scriptures
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Carpet Pages`
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Heavily decorated pages
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Scriptorium
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Where the monks would make the illustrated books
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Viking
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People of the Coves. Norse Sea People. 8th Century. Discovered land in ships.
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Rune stones.
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Letters of early German Alphabet
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Stave Churches
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Wooden Churches. Slanted Roofs.
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Incipit
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Opening words of a text. Means: Here Begins
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Carolingians
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Impacted architecture because of their emphasis on education
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Westwork
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The facade of a church. Opens up into the chapel. Narthex on the ground level and throne room on the second level.
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Cloister
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rectangular, open courtyard. Surrounded by walks/galleries. They lead to other monastic buildings.
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The Doors of Bishop Bernward
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the stories in the old and new testament are represented on the doors.
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Romanesque Architecture
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In the style of rome. Stone Masonry. Heavy stonewalls. small windows. round arches. Barrel vaults. Sculptures outside.
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Lantern Tower
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Built Above the Ceiling with windows to let in Light
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Ribbed Vault
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Groin vault with Ribs. Demarcating the junctions, reinforcement.
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Transverse Arch
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Supporting arch which runs across the vault from side to side. dividing the bays.
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Radiating Chapel
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small niches in the side walls of churches containing small relics.
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Ambulatory
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a second aisle around the apse to ease congestion, allow more movement. People can view the relics easier
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Baldachin
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a canopy suspended over a sacred place
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Tympanum
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semi circle directly over the door of a Romanesque portal.
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Jambs
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vertical elements on the sides of doors.
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trumeau
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central pier that supports the lintel and archivolts. usually decorated
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Historiated Capitals
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narrative scenes on a capital
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keep
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the great tower of a castle
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Bailey
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a Castle Courtyard
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Mandorla
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The full body Halo around Christ or God in christian art
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The Evangelists
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
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Alternating Support System
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in churches. A column and another stronger support alternate. That way the wall is well supported, but it also looks good because there are the fancy columns
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Gothic Architecture
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Made possible by Flying Buttresses
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2 Goals of Gothic Architecture
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1. To let in more light
2. To imitate heaven with the height |
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Fan Vaults
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ribbed vaults that have curved and equally spaced ribs. Resembles a fan
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flying buttressses
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an arched masonry support which extends from the exterior of a building. provides additional support that allows for higher walls/ceilings.
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Choir
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The area of a church reserved for the clergy. Between the transept and the apse. or sometimes extending into the nave.
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Ribbed vaulting
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type of groin vault that diagonal ridges rest on. Covered by moldings/ribs.
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Lancets
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pointed arch of a long window
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triforium
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a shallow gallery of arched located above the nave and below the clerestory
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Clerestory
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the top zone of a wall with windows extending above the aisle roofs. lets in sunlight on the nave.
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transept
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in a longitudinal church, the 2 parts forming the arms of the cross.
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Ambulatory
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for walking. An isle around the apse
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Stained Glass
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colored glass used to form decorative pictorial designs
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Grozing
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process of chipping away at the edges of glass with a hot iron to acheive the exact shape for a stained glass window
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tracery
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ornamental stonework that provides support for glass in a window. Often with bars or mullions.
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cames
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strips of lead between pieces of glass in a window
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cartoon
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full scale drawing. A guide when making a stained glass window
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Abbot Suger
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began reconstruction of the Abbey church at St. denis
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Rose Window
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circular window on a church
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Fleur De Lis
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common motif in gothic stained glass
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Abbey Church of St. Denis
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considered to be the first Gothic church
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The black Plague
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resulted in 2/5 of Europe dying
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Loggia
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Covered, open-air corridor
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Chiaroscuro
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depicting figures using light and dark to show 3D. Shadows
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Grisaille
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monochromatic paintings using gray
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Secco Fresco
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color applied to dry plaster
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Buon Fresco
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color applied while plaster is wet
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Sinopia
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The underdrawings of a fresco
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Giornata
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The section of a fresco that could be completed in a day.
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Cimabue
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Cenni di Pepi. From Florence. Use of Chiaroscuro
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Giotto di Bondone
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student of Cimabue. Drew from live models. From Florence
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Duccio di Boninsegna
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From Siena
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Olmec
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Most prominent early formative culture. Known for great pyramid and huge basalt stone heads.
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Teotihuacan
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Mesoamerica;s 1st true city-state. Pop: 150,000. Pyramid of the moon and Sun. Bloodletting.
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Maya
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In MesoAmerica. Cities with large populations. evidence of terracing/irrigation. Civilization collapsed in 800-900 .
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Mayan Codices and writing
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mesopotamia's most advanced writing system
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Palenque
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Mayan City
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tikal
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MAyan city. pop: 50,000-70,000.
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Roof Comb
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crest that rises over the roof of a temple
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Talud
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Sloping Base of a temple
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Tablero
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entablature featuring a sculpture
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Chichen Itza
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Mayan City
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Chacmool
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a type of sculpture. Depicts a reclining figure
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logograph
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a letter/symbol represents a word or phrase
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Disquis
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700-1500 ad
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Toltec
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800-1000
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Paracas
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People known for elongated heads and blankets
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Nazca
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region with huge geometric patterns you can only view from the sky
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Geoglyph
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large patterns on the ground, viewed from the sky.
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Moche
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People, known or making a lot of drinking vessels
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Burial Mounds
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In North America
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Kivas
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Partly underground. Used for religious ceremonies
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Aztec
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the mexica warlike northern tribe. Founded Aztec Empire. Patriarchal societyq
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Hernan Cortez
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1519 he takes over the Aztecs
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Inca
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Cuzco is the capital. Ruled the cost and highlands. Pop:100,000. Patriarchal society.
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Pisarro
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takes over the Inkas
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Anasazi
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Ancient native american culture
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pueblo
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native american structures
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ashlar masonry
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type of stone/brick laying. (example: Machu Picchu)
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Quetzalcoatl
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Toltec and Aztec God
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Katsina
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benevolent supernatural spirits. Or Ancestral spirits
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Problems of African History
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No written records.
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Rock Art
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Cave paintings with geometric shapes. Also some humans and animals
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Scarification
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usually on faces. Traditional reasons, also for a right of passage.
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Torons
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Wooden beams. They project from the outsides of walls. Typical in mosques.
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Finials
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A sculpted ornament at the top of a linnacle. Shape dlike anostrich egg
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Benin
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1107 AD. Art is influenced by Ife culture
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Nok Heads
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known for triangular shaped eyes
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Ife
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Considered to be 'the navel of the world', the site of all creation
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Reliquaries
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Containers, hold the bones of ancestors, to celebrate the deceased
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mbulu ngulu
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guardian figures
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Masks and Masquerades
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used in coming of age rituals, for judicial reasons, and shows dead ancestors can help the living
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Mbari House
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built of mud and offered as sacrifices
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