these are from danielle.....


Where there any areas or people in Africa who used sacrifice to the extent of the Mayan’s, Aztec’s, etc?

Comment: I really enjoyed the passages about African art. Originally I thought that African art, though not primitive, was always extremely abstract. Because my main interest in art is human figures and form it was fascinating to view how different people, specifically the Ife, handle the human form (“Head of a King” 13th century C.E. brass) in a different way from the people of Mesoamerica.

It seems that everyone from the Olmecs to the Ife people who sculpted their rulers realistically idealized their forms/face. Is there any culture, tribe, or region that sculpted their rulers or people as they really were when they became old/wrinkly?