AP ART HISTORY QUIZ OCEANIC UNIT 6-11

Staff god: Date or Century

(1750-1850)

Staff god: Formal qualities of this work

- alternating male and female couples, maybe showing the act of creation - head of god is the top part and the tree trunk is the body - a line of small figures carved just below the head

Staff god: Related Themes

- fertility - Gender roles - the natural world - sacred - lineage - ritualistic

Staff god: Contextual issues relevant to this work

- in the museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Oldman collection. - Gift of the New Zealand government, 1992 - the piece is an example of indengious art - very few exist - in order for the British missionaries to turn the populous in christians they had to destroy them because it was a symbol of god. - the heads were placed in the churches and temples that were created. to bridge the gap between Jesus and what they use to worship. - the carvings on the neck are Rarotonga people. - very rare artifact - they found rare feathers and polished sea shells inside the trunk and represents the mana that is being protected in the vessel. - Bottom part is the representation of the falice. - they broke it apart to make it easy to transport - home or vessel for god; they have to replace the tapa cloth to keep the mana safe. - the rewrapping was ritualistic

Staff god: Subject/ Content Matter

- large smooth head with stylized eyes, mouth and ears - a curved neck with notches on the outer side - five smaller figures are carved on the shaft - feathers attached to stylized ears - eyes a lips are oval shaped - small figures alongside large ones

Female Deity: Date or century

18th and 19th century

Staff god: Size

6 meters in height

Female Deity: Size

7 feet tall; the sizes vary

Staff god:Culture

Central Polynesia

Female deity: Content/ Subject Matter:

Female women wood sculpture. There is no face but a mark for a nose. There is a pointy chin

Staff god: Related works from course

Hiapo- similar connotation and also made of bark

Female deity; Formal Qualities of this Work:

Lines that show finger, knees, back and a pronounced butt.

Female Deity: Period/culture

Micronesian

Female Deity: Location

Nukuoro, Micronesia

Female Deity: Patron

Polynesians/ Micronesians

Staff god: Location

Rarotonga, Cook Islands, central Polynesia

Staff god: Patron

Rarotongan people

Staff god: Materials

Wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers

Female deity;Symbol used (iconography):

body shape symbolized a women

Staff god: Techniques

carved

Staff god: Audience response

destroyed by the British Missionaries

Female Deity: Techniques

either carved using a adze with clamshell blades or traditional European tools

Staff god: Artists/ Architect

rarotongan people; men and women

Staff god: Intended audience for the work

the populous of Rarotonga and British missionaries

Staff god: Function

they were interested in destroying them. they were displayed and during the holidays they would present them with offerings.

Staff god: Symbol used

women symbolized childbirth men symbolized important ancestors

Female Deity: Materials

wood- made from bread fruit tree