Ethnographic Art Date Time Professor Aboriginal Bark Painting Boy's shirt— Crow Tribe

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Websites General Art History Art History Resources on the Web http:// witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html from Sweet Briar College Lists of art history resources subdivided by time period Timeline of Art History http:// www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm from Metropolitan Museum of Art Voice of the Shuttle http:// vos.ucsb.edu from University of California at Santa Barbara Categories include art history, cultural studies, anthropology, and archeology

General Art History

Art History Resources on the Web

http:// witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html from Sweet Briar College

Lists of art history resources subdivided by time period

Timeline of Art History http:// www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm from Metropolitan Museum of Art

Voice of the Shuttle http:// vos.ucsb.edu from University of California at Santa Barbara

Categories include art history, cultural studies, anthropology, and archeology

Selected Museum Sites Bowers Museum of Cultural Art http://www.bowers.org Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology http://www.peabody.harvard.edu from Harvard University Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology http:// www.sfu.ca /archaeology/museum Smithsonian Institution 1. National Museum of Natural History http:// www.mnh.si.edu 2. National Museum of the American Indian http:// www.nmai.si.edu 3. National Museum of African Art http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art http://www.bowers.org

Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology http://www.peabody.harvard.edu from Harvard University

Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology http:// www.sfu.ca /archaeology/museum

Smithsonian Institution

1. National Museum of Natural History http:// www.mnh.si.edu

2. National Museum of the American Indian http:// www.nmai.si.edu

3. National Museum of African Art http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html

Selected Sites for Anthropology / Archeology / Ethnography Anthropology Resources on the Internet http:// www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm from American Anthropological Assoc. CSA Guide to Archaeological Projects http:// csanet.org/index.html from Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute http:// www.mesoweb.com/pari Resources in Ethnographic Studies http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html from Library of Congress, American Folklife Center UCSB Department of Anthropology Links Directory http:// www.anth.ucsb.edu /links/pages from Anthropology Dept, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Art and Life in Africa Online http:// www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html from Univ. of Iowa Revised JR: H: Ethnographic Art Handout Revised 09/07

Anthropology Resources on the Internet http:// www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm from American Anthropological Assoc.

CSA Guide to Archaeological Projects http:// csanet.org/index.html from Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology

Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute http:// www.mesoweb.com/pari

Resources in Ethnographic Studies http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html from Library of Congress, American Folklife Center

UCSB Department of Anthropology Links Directory http:// www.anth.ucsb.edu /links/pages from Anthropology Dept, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Art and Life in Africa Online http:// www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html from Univ. of Iowa

Revised JR: H: Ethnographic Art Handout Revised 09/07

Head of a King, 17th century Nigeria, Edo, Benin City, Bronze Location Benin City Nigeria Africa Time period 17 th Century Medium Bronze Lost-wax casting Subject Royalty Ruler OR King OR Oba Kingdom Purpose Ritual Altar Related Ideas Headdress Cleveland Museum of Art Ideas taken from description of object on Cleveland of Art Museum website

Location

Benin City

Nigeria

Africa

Time period

17 th Century

Medium

Bronze

Lost-wax casting

Subject

Royalty

Ruler OR King OR Oba

Kingdom

Purpose

Ritual

Altar

Related Ideas

Headdress

Cleveland Museum of Art