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- terra-cotta
- a baked clay often used to make pottery and sculptures
- matrilineal
- based on a woman's family line
- scaffolding
- a framework used to support workers and materials during the construction or repair of a building
- rainforest
- an area of lush vegetation and year-round rainfall
- folktale
- a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
- tribute
- a payment made by one ruler or country to another for protection or as a sign of submission
- excavate
- in archeology, to carefully dig out an ancient site
- deposit
- a layer or mass of a material found in rock or in the ground
- extended family
- an immediate family plus other close relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
- porter
- a person that is hired to carry loads
- genealogy
- an account of the line of ancestry within a family
- patrilineal
- based on a man's family line
- succession
- inheritance of the right to rule
- call and response
- a song style in which a singer or musician leads with a call and a group responds
- applique
- a technique in which shaped pieces of fabric are attached to a background fabric to form a design or picture
- woodland forest
- an area of abundant trees and shrubs
- headdress
- a decorative covering worn on the head, often as a sign of rank
- amulet
- a piece of jewelry or other object used as a charm to provide protection against bad luck, injury, illness, or evil
- textile
- a woven cloth