PPT-A History of Masks across cultures, time, and peoples

A Very Brief Histor y The use of masks in rituals or ceremonies is a very ancient human practice across the world The oldest masks that have been discovered are 9000 years old being held by the Musée Bible et Terre Sainte Paris and the Israel Museum Jerusalem The practice of masking is much older the earliest known anthropomorphic artwork is circa 3000040000 years old but insofar as it involved the use of warpaint leather vegetative material or wooden masks the masks probably have not been preserved they are visible only in paleolithic cave drawings of which dozens have been preserved. : www.uiowa.edu; www.bostonhearld.com (Oct. 27, 2004); Al-Koni, Ibrahim, Anubis, A Desert Novel, The American Univer-sity in Cairo Press, 2005. Burkina Faso ur kina F aso LibyaAlgeriaMauritaniaNigeria Thieves of Time, directed by Don . Hopfer. , for Arizona Educational Television, 1992.. Introduced by Tony . Hillerman. Native Americans’ view of Historic Preservation. Native Americans–especially on reservations view with distrust the. Scottish folks would usually wear the traditional kilt which is similar to a pleaded skirt. The kilts length is just below the knees. In Scotland there is many different tartan patterns the patterns represent clans and names. Wearing a green colored tartan resembled the forest, blue tartans resembled the lakes and rivers, yellow tartans resembled crops, and in battle you wore red so the blood would not show. . By Jessica Dau, Vivian Lee, Catherine Pham, and Victor . Pham. . Period 3. 19th Century African Art (Overview). Ancient arts of Africans were known for their rock paintings. Similar to the Paleolithic paintings on the caverns. . Shao. . Guangqing. Outline . Time. Attitudes to: Sequential . and Synchronic. Sequential. Synchronic. Sequential cultures Vs Synchronic . cultures. Conclusion. Time . Time is one of the most precious commodities in today’s modern world, however the value we give to time and how we manage our day by it is not universal. . History suggests that the now world famous Masquerade Masks originated in Venice, Italy during the 15th Century. They were primarily in use by general public before Masquerade Balls came into existence in 16th Century Renaissance. Further theories suggest that the original usage was meant to conceal identity of the wearer as well as to equalize people from higher and lower classes during public events.. Mask: . a form of disguise. It is an object that is frequently worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being. . This essential characteristic of hiding and revealing personalities or moods is common to all masks. As cultural objects they have been used throughout the world in all periods since the Stone Age and have been as varied in appearance as in their use and symbolism.. Introduction. Observe the following paintings painted by First Nations artists. What insight do the paintings give you into the lifestyles and values? . The First Peoples of Canada. The history of the land that is present-day Canada stretches back thousands of years. Science and oral tradition provide us with differing explanations of when and how the First Peoples came to live in what is now called Canada. . The Mongol Moment. 1200–1500. I. Looking Back and Looking Around: The Long History of Pastoral Peoples. The World of Pastoral Societies. 1. Standard features of pastoral societies. a. . generally less productive than agricultural societies, needed large grazing areas, populations much smaller than in agricultural societies, lived in encampments of related kinfolk, usually common ancestry in male line, clans sometimes gathered as a tribe; could absorb unrelated people, more egalitarian than sedentary societies, but sometimes distinguished between nobles and commoners, women usually had higher status and greater freedom than in sedentary societies, mobility between distinct ecological niches.. First Americans. Prehistory - 1492. Lesson 1 – Migration to the Americas. Where did they come from?. Asia. Europe, Africa, South Pacific, etc.?. How did they get here?. Beringia – land bridge. Boat crossings?. th. , 2016. Canadian Time Zones. Coordinated Universal Time (. utc. ). Coordinated Universal Time is the basis for civil time in many places worldwide. . Time zones around the world are expressed as positive or negatives offsets from UTC. The hours, minutes, and seconds that UTC expresses is kept close to the mean solar time at the Earth’s prime meridian (zero degrees longitude) located near Greenwich, England. . VAHSVACU.2 b. Creates art work that explores ideas, issues, and events from current and past cultures. . VAHSVAPR.4 . a. . Translates 2-D sketches into 3-D form. . Standards. Learning Objectives:. Explore using a mask for the purpose of communicating history and culture, evoking emotion or storytelling.. Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Polynesian, Egyptian and Tibetan astronomy, among others, the book includes essays on Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them and Astronomy and Prehistory, and Astronomy and Astrology. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate astronomical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups. 2. Where do they come from? . 3. What do you know about these images? . Over the next . 5 . weeks, you will study masks from other cultures before creating your very own mask, inspired by one, or all of these… .