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African folk art is important to them such as animal art, animal art is “traditions, ancient and modern” by creating what humans see in them and nature. Animal art is made from adults they built a relationship by men in understanding both animals and humans. Women have a part in this for them are the use of fabric to create patterns from the animals. Animals were seen as an honor, power and they were a symbol to them. Some common animals they use are crocodiles, elephants, and hornbills. But “while African artists portray some familiar animals (e.g., dogs, horses, rams), they tend to concentrate on curious menagerie of aardvarks and antelopes, bats and buffalo, pangolins, snakes, spiders, spotted cat, and a few others deemed meaningful in appearance and behavior (Roberts 1995; 17). The animals they use to create their type of animal art are not just the common animals we know from movies there more than that. The reason they create art with these types of animals is because of the details, and the “natural symbols”. They represent “leadership, healing, divination, problem-solving, rites of passage, and rituals” (Roberts 1995; 16). They create this artwork on walls, craving on drums, masks, and pots. In creating this type of artwork shows them where they come from and how nature is important to them.

Sculptures are important to African folk art because it represents many things such as royalty, and what they believe. Not only for what they believe but also when they perform celebrations. Royalty to celebrate when a king will be crowned and the steps they take to perform the celebration. These sculptures represent when people are having a difficult time with their religion. The “headdresses called “farming animal hat,” represented the mythical antelope, who taught man agriculture” (Davis 1981; 20). There are two different types of headdresses for men and women, for male “has a stylized open-work mane, and for female “has no mane, is depicted with an offspring on her back” (Davis 1981; 20). These headdresses are used for dances and to perform religious rituals. The materials that were used to make sculptures where pigment, wood, glass, wire, encrusted matter, nails, brass, metal, grasses, iron, fiber, and sacrificial materials.

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Blier, Suzanne Preston. Royal Arts of Africa: the Majesty of Form. L. King, 2012.

Davis, Charles B. The Animal Motif in Bamana Art. Davis Gallery, 1981.

Roberts, Allen F., et al. Animals in African Art: from the Familiar to the Marvelous. The Museum for African Art, 1995.

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