Fowler African Art

Fowler Museum at UCLA

Left to right: 
Artist Unknown (Mbole peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Male figure, 19th century
Wood, paint
Fowler Museum at UCLA X65.7486; Gift of the Wellcome Trust

Artist Unknown
(Ndzebi or Sango peoples, bend of the Ogowe River, Gabon)
Bwiti Association mask, 19th to early 20th century
Wood, plant fiber, cotton string, metal, glass beads, paint
Fowler Museum at UCLA X65.5270; Gift of the Wellcome Trust

Attributed to Adugbologe (d. circa 1940, Yoruba peoples, Abeokuta, Nigeria)
Headdress (ere Egungun olode), made prior to 1922
Wood, pigment
Fowler Museum at UCLA X65.9051; Gift of the Wellcome Trust 

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