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Chapter 13

This activity contains 5 questions.

In your text, figure 13-3, view Cattle Being Tended, the section of rock-wall painting from Tassili-n-Ajjer. Then view one of the animal wall paintings from chapter 1. How are the images alike and how are they different?

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In your text, view figure 13-4 the image of the terra-cotta head from Nok. Contemplate this image and note what things about the head make it recognizable as a human head and what things make it "abstract." Based on your notes, write a brief essay on the combination of realism and abstraction in Nok sculpture.

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In your text, view figure 13-7, pull up the head of an oba (king). In your text, choose a head or other portrait of a ruler from an earlier chapter. Compare and contrast the two images.

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In your text, figure 13-14, look at the image of the Conical Tower, Great Zimbabwe. What kind of masonry was involved in the construction? Does the type of masonry remind you of a masonry technique that you have seen before? If so, what?

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In your text, look at the images from chapter 13. Then review the images from earlier chapters. Which earlier chapter has objects that remind you of the images you see in chapter 13? Write a brief essay explaining why the images from the two chapters appear similar.

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