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Compare and contrast these two artforms in terms of their art historical and cultural significance. What are these two objects? How do they relate to each other and to the larger group of objects of which they are a part? What is shared about them, and what is unique? Compare and contrast these two objects in terms of what we can reconstruct about their meaning and significance based on the evidence we have. What are our sources of information and what do these sources tell us?（2 paragraph）picture can be found in pdf 1
Resourse：
Pdf 1，2，3
https://www.scantix.com/case-studies/terracotta-statues/djenne-shrine/
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/coll-riviere-pf1928/lot.51.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2020/sahel-daouda-keita-archaeology-interview
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/looting-malis-history-144953243/
https://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/about/the-legend-of-wagadu/
Compare and Contrast these two artforms in terms of their art historical and cultural significance. What do they represent? In what context(s) and/or under what circumstances do they appear? If you could add one of these to your personal collection, which one would you choose and why?（2 paragraph）
Picture can be found in pdf 6, 10
Resourse:
Pdf 6,7,8,9,10,11
Compare and contrast the buildings in these two images in terms of their art historical and cultural significance. Identify them (what are they and where are they?). What do they have in common? How are they different.（2 paragraph）
Picture can be found in pdf 4
Resourse:
Pdf 4,5
https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2018/saving-the-great-mosque-of-djenne/
https://www.zamaniproject.org/site-mali-timbuktu-djingareyber-mosque.html#header5-a9
https://www.zamaniproject.org/site-mali-djenne-great-mosque.html#header5-an
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfvr6PczyAo
Based on your substantial knowledge about Dogon masquerade, compare whichever one of the two you choose to what you have learned. What masquerade types/characters appear in the video, are there others you don't recognize? Is there anything that surprises you in these videos?(3 paragraph)
If you had the opportunity to accompany one of the following scholars or teams of scholars to conduct field research in West Africa, whom would you choose and why? In 2-3 paragraphs, describe what the focus of the research would be? What questions would you be asking? What answers would you hope to find?(3 paragraph)
Sam Nixon and Mamadou Cisse
Susan and Roderick McIntosh
Stephen Wooten
Germaine Dieterlen (and Marcel Griaule) (this one would involve time travel!)
Paul Lane
