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Central Nigeria unmasked : arts of the Benue River valley
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- Creator
- Marla C. Berns, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, editors ; with essays by Joerg Adelberger ... [and others] ; with contributions by Gassia Armenian ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 607 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780977834457, 097783445X, 9780977834464, 0977834468
- OCLC
- ocn719673490
- "... accompanies an exhibition that opened at the Fowler Museum in February 2011 and will travel to venues in Washington, D.C., Stanford, and Paris"--Preface.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities -- Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist / Susan Picton -- The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- The Igala Egwu Afia / John Boston -- Ebira masquerade and its histories / John Picton -- Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe / Constanze Weise -- Power and gender in the history of Egungun / John Willis -- Dead fathers of Okpella / Jean Borgatti -- Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited / John Picton -- Igala masquerades and figure sculpture / John Boston -- Lost-wax casting along the Benue / Nancy Neaher Maas -- Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell / Nancy Neaher Maas -- Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories -- Introduction: the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys / Marla C. Berns -- A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai / Arnold Rubin -- Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi -- Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye / Mette Bovin -- Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau / Barbara Frank -- Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks / Marla C. Berns -- Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin / Joerg Adelberger -- Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective / Marla C. Berns -- The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay -- Introduction to Upper Benue arts / Marla C. Berns -- Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley / Marla C. Berns -- Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda / Marla C. Berns -- Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera / Marla C. Berns -- Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley / Marla C. Berns -- Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection / Hélène Joubert
- The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities -- Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies / Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists / Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist / Susan Picton -- The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history / The Igala Egwu Afia / John Boston -- Ebira masquerade and its histories / John Picton -- Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe / Constanze Weise -- Power and gender in the history of Egungun / John Willis -- Dead fathers of Okpella / Jean Borgatti -- Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited / Igala masquerades and figure sculpture / Lost-wax casting along the Benue / Nancy Neaher Maas -- Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell / Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes / The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories -- Introduction: the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue / Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys / Marla C. Berns -- A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai / Arnold Rubin -- Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue / Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi -- Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye / Mette Bovin -- Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue / Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau / Barbara Frank -- Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks / Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin / Joerg Adelberger -- Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective / The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay -- Introduction to Upper Benue arts / Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley / Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda / Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera / Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley / Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection / Hélène Joubert