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An artist of ofu-ona patterns in this material, Olowe of Ise, inspired David Adjaye ("AD-jay") and Philip Freelon's design of upside-down trapezoids for the exterior of a Smithsonian museum. (0[2])Medicine is built into "power figures" made of this material called (20[1])nkondi. (20[2]0[1])Symbols called ibol appear on Kuba (20[1])ndop statues in this (0[1])material. (0[1])Strings (0[1])are used to split this material and reveal a (0[1])spirit's (0[1])face (0[1])in transformation artworks of the (*) Tlingit (0[1])("KLING-it") and Haida. (10[1])Abstract faces (10[2])on Fang artworks (10[1])made of this material (0[1])inspired (10[1])the figures in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (10[4]0[2])("lay duh-mwah-ZELL dah-veen-YON"). Artworks of this material (10[1])portray (10[1])spirits (10[1])of animals like an eagle or orca (10[1]0[1])stacked (10[1])on top of each other. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, what common material for African (10[1])masks (0[1])is also used for (10[1])totem poles? (10[4])■END■ (10[8])

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