Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1984 - 5/31/1985

Funding Totals

$145,878.00 (approved)
$145,878.00 (awarded)


Asante: Life & Culture in Western Ghana (Implementation)

FAIN: GM-21774-84

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY 10024-5102)
Thomas D. Nicholson (Project Director: April 1983 to October 1990)

To support a major temporary exhibition on the life and culture of the Asante people of Western Ghana. Exhibit artifacts will be on loan from the British Museum. A public lecture series is planned and a symposium involving prominentscholars of the Asante.