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Summoning the ancestors : southern Nigerian bronzes / Nancy Neaher Maas, Philip M. Peek.

Title
Summoning the ancestors : southern Nigerian bronzes / Nancy Neaher Maas, Philip M. Peek.
Author
Neaher, Nancy Christine, 1941-
Publication
Los Angeles, California : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Fowler Museum at UCLA, host institution.
  • Peek, Philip M.,
Description
100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm
Summary
"This Fowler in Focus exhibition celebrates the promised gift of two large marvelous collections of bronze bells and ǫfǫs amassed by Mark Clayton. Originating in southern Nigeria, the bells and ǫfǫs were used in a variety of ritual contexts"--
Subject
  • Art > Private collections
  • Art metal-work > Nigeria > Exhibitions
  • Art metal-work
  • Bells > Nigeria > Exhibitions
  • Bells
  • Bronzes > Nigeria > Exhibitions
  • Bronzes, African > Exhibitions
  • Bronzes, African
  • Bronzes
  • Clayton, Mark (Art collector) > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Nigeria
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Summoning the Ancestors: Southern Nigerian Bronzes is published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, which was on view September 16, 2018-March 10, 2019."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Director's Foreword / Marla C. Berns -- Collector's Statement / Mark Clayton -- Introduction / Nancy Neaher Maas and Philip M. Peek -- The Bells of Southern Nigeria / Nancy Neaher Maas -- Portfolio 1: Bells -- Bronze ǫfǫ of Southern Nigeria / Philip M. Peek -- Portfolio 2: ǫfǫ -- Postscript: The ǫfǫ and the Bell / Herbert M. Cole
Call Number
NK7989.6.N5
ISBN
  • 9780990762683
  • 0990762688
LCCN
2019055655
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries