Central Nigeria unmasked
Subtitle: arts of the Benue River valley
By: edited by Marla C. Berns, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir ; with contributions by Joerg Adelberger ...  [et al.].
Contributors: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9780977834457; 9780977834464
Subjects: Social life and customs; Exhibitions; Nigerian Art; Masks
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.
Table of contents: title: The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities; title: Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; title: Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; title: Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; title: Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist / Susan Picton; title: The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; title: The Igala Egwu Afia / John Boston; title: Ebira masquerade and its histories / John Picton; title: Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe / Constanze Weise; title: Power and gender in the history of Egungun / John Willis; title: Dead fathers of Okpella / Jean Borgatti; title: Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited / John Picton; title: Igala masquerades and figure sculpture / John Boston; title: Lost-wax casting along the Benue / Nancy Neaher Maas; title: Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell / Nancy Neaher Maas; title: Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; title: The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories; title: Introduction: the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon; title: The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue / Richard Fardon; title: Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys / Marla C. Berns; title: A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai / Arnold Rubin; title: Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon; title: Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi; title: Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye / Mette Bovin; title: Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon; title: Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau / Barbara Frank; title: Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks / Marla C. Berns; title: Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin / Joerg Adelberger; title: Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective / Marla C. Berns; title: The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay; title: Introduction to Upper Benue arts / Marla C. Berns; title: Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley / Marla C. Berns; title: Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda / Marla C. Berns; title: Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera / Marla C. Berns; title: Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley / Marla C. Berns; title: Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection / Hélène Joubert.