Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1984 - 12/31/1984

Funding Totals

$37,784.00 (approved)
$37,784.00 (awarded)


Symbolic and Trade Significance of Copper in African Art andCulture (Implementation)

FAIN: GM-21848-84

Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA 01075-1423)
Eugenia W. Herbert (Project Director: April 1983 to October 1990)

To support a temporary exhibition of 50 copper and copper-alloy artifacts from Zaire, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Western Africa, highlighting the antiquity of the trans-Saharan copper trade and focusing on the cultural role of copper and its alloys.