An edition of Central Nigeria unmasked
(2011)
Central Nigeria unmasked
arts of the Benue River valley
by Marla Berns, Richard Fardon, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, and Jörg Adelberger
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Central Nigeria unmasked: arts of the Benue River valley
2011, Fowler Museum at UCLA
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
"... 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.
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