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Chapter 15 Africa Before 1800. Africa Before 1800. Fig 15-1 Detail of the eastern façade of the Great Mosque (Fig 15-8), Djenne, Mali, begun 13 th century, rebuilt 1906-1907. Figure 15-2 Running horned woman, rock painting, from Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, ca. 6000–4000 BCE.
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Chapter 15 Africa Before 1800
Fig 15-1 Detail of the eastern façade of the Great Mosque (Fig 15-8), Djenne, Mali, begun 13th century, rebuilt 1906-1907.
Figure 15-2 Running horned woman, rock painting, from Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, ca. 6000–4000 BCE.
Figure 15-3 Nok head, from Rafin Kura, Nigeria, ca. 500 BCE–200 CE. Terracotta, 1’ 2 3/16” high. National Museum, Lagos.
Figure 15-4 Head, from Lydenburg, South Africa, ca. 500 ce. Terracotta, 121 5/16”high. South African Museum, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Cape Town.
Figure 15-5 Equestrian figure on fly-whisk hilt, from Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, 9th to 10th century. Copper-alloy bronze, figure 6 3/16” high. National Museum, Lagos.
Figure 15-6 King, from Ita Yemoo (Ife), Nigeria, 11th to 12th century. Zinc-brass, 1’61/2”high.Museum of Ife Antiquities, Ife.
Figure 15-7 Archer, from Djenne, Mali, 13th to 15th century. Terracotta, 2’ 3/8” high. National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
Figure 15-8 Aerial view of the Great Mosque, Djenne, Mali, Begun 13th century, rebuilt 1906-1907.
Figure 15-9 Beta Giorghis (Church of Saint George), Lalibela, Ethiopia, 13th century.
Figure 15-10 Walls and tower, Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, 14th century.
Figure 15-11 Monolith with bird and crocodile, from Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, 15th century. Soapstone, bird image 1’21/2”high. Great Zimbabwe Site Museum, Great Zimbabwe.
Figure 15-12 Waist pendant of a Queen Mother, from Benin, Nigeria, ca.1520. Ivory and iron, 9 3/8”high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972).
Figure 15-13 Altar to the Hand and Arm (ikegobo), from Benin, Nigeria, 17th to 18th century. Bronze, 1’ 512”high. British Museum, London.
Figure 15-14 MASTER OF THE SYMBOLIC EXECUTION, saltcellar, Sapi-Portuguese, from Sierra Leone, 15th to 16th century. Ivory, 1’ 4 7/8” high. Museo Nazionale Preistorico e Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome.
