ARH 203 Study Guide FOR 10/25/05 MIDTERM

PART 2I. SLIDE REVIEW/THESIS STATEMENT

Please review the following slides and complete or revise your notes.

Please practice developing a thesis sentence for each juxtaposition

THESIS SENTENCE:One complete,accurate, unified, precise

sentence stating issues represented by each pair of slides together.

• LEFT: Wo-Haw, Wo-Haw between Two Worlds, 1875-7, ledger-book drawing, graphite/colored pencil on paper

• RIGHT: Mrs. Minnie Sky Arrow, Beaded Dress, c. 1890, glass beads over buckskin

GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI & HIS BRIDE, c. 1434 AD By Jan Van Eyck, Northern Renaissance

ONI OF IFE, & QUEEN, NIGERIA c. 1100 - 1400 A.D.

HUNTING NET, ZANDE, ZAIRE, HERBERT LANGCOLLECTION, 1910

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSISleeping MuseBronze. 1949.

Fulani (Wodaabe) Niger

LEFT: LEAH NAMPEYO,c. 1900. HOPI,1ST MESA

RIGHT: Raharuhi RukupoSelf Portrait in the HouseTe Hau-ki-Turanga Maori, New Zealand

LEFT: HAIDA, NWC, Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., 1888

RIGHT: ASMAT, IRIAN JAYA MBIS (Ancestral POLES) on Beach, 1961; Mangrove Wood, Sago Palm.

STUDENT PRACTICE THESIS SENTENCE:The Haida totems represent cultural hierarchy & power whereas the Asmat territorial markers are focused on the cyclical nature of the environment and core locus of their cultures [sic] epistemology.

LEFT: HAIDA, NWC, Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., 1888

RIGHT: ASMAT, IRIAN JAYA MBIS (Ancestral POLES) on Beach, 1961; Mangrove Wood, Sago Palm.

STUDENT PRACTICE THESIS SENTENCE:While the Haida crest poles and the Asmat Mbis have a common purpose of honoring ancestors, they do have several innate differences.

LEFT: HAIDA, NWC, Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., 1888RIGHT: ASMAT, IRIAN JAYA MBIS (Ancestral POLES) on Beach, 1961; Mangrove Wood, Sago Palm.

STUDENT PRACTICE THESIS SENTENCE:Both the Haida settlement with totem poles and the Asmat Mbis ancestral poles have ritual significance and would have been considered points of power in their communities.