Across
- 2. / Wooden beams projecting from walls of adobe buildings
- 3. / an object believed to possess magical powers
- 6. perdue / A bronze casting method in which a figure is modeled in clay and covered with wax and then recovered with clay. When fired in a kiln, the wax melts away, leaving a channel between the two layers of clay which can be used as a mold for liquid metal
- 8. / a memory board used by the Luba people of central Africa
- 9. / in the art of the Fang people, a reliquary guardian figure
- 10. / a building material made from earth, straw, or clay dried in the sun
- 11. n’kondi / a Kongo power figure
- 12. / a Kuba commemorative portrait of a king in an ideal state
Down
- 1. / scarring of the skin in patterns by cutting with a knife: when the cut heals, a raised pattern is created, which is painted
- 4. / a shrine figure symbolizing traditional male attributes of the Igbo people
- 5. / an elephant mask of the Bamileke people of Cameroon
- 7. / a commemorative portrait of the Baule people
- 9. / masks used by the women’s Sande society to bring girls into puberty
- 13. / a female mask worn by women of the Chokwe people