Fowler Museum at Fifty

I roamed through the exhibits of the Fowler museum on the UCLA campus.  They are celebrating their fifthieth year of operation.  Thr brochure says that the museum collections comprise more than 150,000 works of art and material culture and 600,000 archaeological objects, which together represent past and present cultures from Africa, Native and Latin America, Asia and the Pacific..  Nearly 1,000 objects are now on display.  The roooms have sctions that are entitle with different themes such as "Intersections:  World Arts, Local Lives, Art and Action, Art and Knowledge and Art and Power."

Here is a sample of things I observed:

A wall weaving with coper wire and fabric by a Ghana/Nigeria artist in 2005

"La Calavera Don Quijote," 1980 in Papier-mache by Felipe Linaries (Mexico, b. 1936)

"Aparthied's Funeral," 1994 by Johannes Segogela (South Africa, b. 1936) in wood with paint.

""Shrine sculpture," by Ishan peoples, Nigeria, 19th-20th century in wood, pigment, cloth, string,  and fiber,.

"Headdress (ere gelede)" attributed to Labintan (Otta, Nigeria, d. ca. 1930) in wood, paint, laundry bluing.  "Headdress with motorcycle and rider," by Eloi Lokossou (Republic of Benin)

"Mask" by Tsimshian peoples, British Columbia, Canana, 19th century.

"Ship-on-wheels" is a party of the Fowler silver collection.  This adult toy of the 19th-centuiry German manufacture is modeled on the galleons of an earlier era.

"From the Sepik River to Los Angeles:  Art in Migration.  The items in this room came from a region now part of the nation of Papua New Guinea.

Canoe from Yami peoples, Botei Tobago Island, Taiwan, Early 20th century.  The Offering post in front is from the Tetum peoples, Dafala, Belu, West Timor, Indonesia, 19th century in stone.