These seven artworks, which the teenager Ludwig von Bezing found in the Mpumalanga (“mm-poohm-ah-LAAN-gah”) region, include one that resembles a snouted animal and two with lion-esque animal statuettes at their crowns. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this set of sculpted heads created during the Iron Age, the oldest-known sculptures yet found in what is now South Africa.
ANSWER: Lydenburg heads
[10e] The Lydenburg heads are made of this material, which was also used for thousands of statues for a tomb in Xī'ān (“shee-AHN”).
ANSWER: terra cotta [accept Terra Cotta Army of Qín Shǐ Huángdì; prompt on clay, pottery, ceramics, earth; reject “porcelain”]
[10m] Female clayworkers from this site produced realist terracotta busts with vertical stripes running down their faces. Sculptures recovered from the Ore and Iwinrin Grove at this site led Leo Frobenius to postulate the existence of an “African Atlantis.”
ANSWER: Ifẹ [or Ilé-Ifẹ̀]
<Matt Jackson, Visual Fine Arts>