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.