Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1986 - 12/31/1986

Funding Totals

$78,431.00 (approved)
$78,431.00 (awarded)


The Essential Gourd: Its Art and History in Northeastern Nigeria

FAIN: GM-22964-86

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Doran H. Ross (Project Director: June 1985 to October 1990)

To support an exhibition and publication on decorated gourds from Northeastern Nigeria. A multidisciplinary approach geared to the public and to specialists will explain the ethnography and socio-cultural history of gourd use and deco- ration.