Tribal Scarification Scarification is one of the most common rituals in tribes around the world Scarification involves cutting‚ marking‚ scratching‚ words‚ symbols or designs permanently as body alteration. In body scarification‚ you’re cutting or branding your skin. Scarification is most frequently used on darker skinned persons because it shows up better than it would on a lighter pigmented person. There are also Religious‚ Social‚ and Aesthetic reasons for scarification. In Papua‚ New Guinea
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Congo African Body Art: Scarification Scarification is a Cultural practice among the African Culture. Some of the most elaborated patters scaring are found among the indigenous people of the Congo. The climate and costume in the Congo enable and promoted people to décor their bodies. Scarification is a procedure of incising the skin with a sharp tool to create raised marks and/or patterns. The tools used to cut the epidermis of the body are knife‚ glass‚ stone‚ coconut shell or seeds. Sometimes
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In Africa‚ scarification was quite a bit different. Though there were often similar meanings behind the scars‚ for example‚ tribal markings‚ social inclusion‚ signifying life events‚ and marks of beauty and decoration; there were still quite a big difference between African and Aboriginal scarification. One of the key differences in West Africa was that scar were generally given to children‚ or more so infants on their naming day‚ which took place 8 days after birth.!!!!!!! And these were usually
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The Function of an African Mask In the early 20th Century‚ artists like PABLO PICASSO and ANDRE DERAIN were inspired by the bold abstract designs that they discovered in African tribal masks. They collected and used these works of art to influence their own style. In effect‚ they used African culture to refresh the tired tradition of figure painting in Western Art. As a result‚ we now tend to admire the bold design and abstract patterns of African masks through European eyes. We appreciate them
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Controversies in African History In 1871‚ Charles Darwin suggested that Africa was the birth place of humankind. This statement ignited great controversy within Europe. Most of Europe withheld Protestant beliefs‚ believing that human races were separately created. They believed in Adam and Eve and completely disregarding the theory behind evolution. Because many Europeans did not want to accept that their ancestors came from Africa‚ the idea of the Africa cradle of human kind was easily a racial
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Brenda Gonzalez Professor McGrath Art History Hybird November 5‚ 2012 African Chokwe Masks The term Chokwe has at least 30 different spellings. Their history dates back to the 15th century‚ when a Lunda queen married a Luba prince Chibinda Ilunga. Because a member of the Lunda aristocracy disapproved of the marriage‚ the queen and prince migrated south to present-day Angola. There they founded several kingdoms‚ each headed by a god-king. The masks they created probably played important roles
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BLACK CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA (MUU-LAN)‚ MEXICO (XI) Gigantic stone head of Negritic African The earliest people in the Americas were people of the Negritic African race‚ who entered the Americas perhaps as early as 100‚000 years ago‚ by way of the bering straight and about thirty thousand years ago in a worldwide maritime undertaking that included journeys from the then wet and lake filled Sahara towards the Indian Ocean and the Pacific‚ and from West Africa across the Atlantic
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the study of the African experience? Abstract: In my research‚ to understand how we undertake the study of the African experience you have to start in the beginning of time which dates back hundreds of thousands years ago and go into one of the first civilizations known as ancient Egypt. Understanding where the people come from and where they are at today does not even cover a quarter of understanding the true African experience. To understand truly how to undertake the African experience you must
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African Slavery and the Slave Trade African Slavery and the Slave Trade was one of the most devastating events that took place between us African Americans. African slavery all began back in 1482 when the Portuguese built their first permanent trading post on the Western Coast of present day Ghana. The Elimina castle later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637 and traded slaves there until 1872 when
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Masks are one of the most spiritually important art forms developed in Africa. Among the masks many uses were; communicating with spirits and ancestors‚ serving as teaching aids in gender specific initiation ceremonies‚ tools for maintaining order‚ enhancements for reenacted stories and myths‚ symbols of rank and power‚ and a record for past leaders. I will be focussing on masks from the first three categories. The masks‚ which are all Helmet style masks from West and Central Africa‚ illustrate
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