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Bamana Mud Cloth
Compare the Bamana cloth to
the cloth of the Dogon and the Senufo.
What is similar?
What is different?
What kind of pattern is
repeated?
What kind of lines? |
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Dogon Mud Cloth
Compare the Dogon cloth to
the cloth of the Bamana and the Senufo.
What is similar?
What is different?
What kind of pattern is
repeated?
What kind of lines?
What kinds of shapes?
Do you think they have similar meaning and function? |
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Senufo Cloth
Compare this cloth to the
Dogon and Bamana cloths.
Do you think it is made the same way?
How has the artist abstracted
nature?
What kinds of lines and patterns
did the artist use?
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