Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1984 - 5/31/1987

Funding Totals

$155,572.00 (approved)
$155,572.00 (awarded)


Tabwa: Emblems and Imagery of an African People

FAIN: GM-21936-84

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Evan M. Maurer (Project Director: October 1983 to October 1990)

To support a traveling exhibition which presents the living tradition of the Tabwa (Zaire) people through an examination of their sculpture and artifacts inan attempt to establish the "rhythmic relationship" of their art, narrative, music, divination, and magic.