Note: Formerly CIP , Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of African Art, and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of African Art, and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages (pages 355-357)

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages (pages 355-357)

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , "... accompanies an exhibition that opened at the Fowler Museum in February 2011 and will travel to venues in Washington, D.C., Stanford, and Paris" - Preface. - Includes bibliographical references , The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities ; Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history , Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies , Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists , Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist , The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history , The Igala Egwu Afia , Ebira masquerade and its histories , Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe , Power and gender in the history of Egungun , Dead fathers of Okpella , Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited , Igala masquerades and figure sculpture , Lost-wax casting along the Benue , Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell , Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes , The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories ; Introduction: the Middle Benue , The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue , Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys , A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai , Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue , Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades , Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye , Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue , Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau , Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks , Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin , Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective , The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay ; Introduction to Upper Benue arts , Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley , Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda , Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera , Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley , Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , "... accompanies an exhibition that opened at the Fowler Museum in February 2011 and will travel to venues in Washington, D.C., Stanford, and Paris" - Preface. - Includes bibliographical references , The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities ; Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history , Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies , Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists , Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist , The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history , The Igala Egwu Afia , Ebira masquerade and its histories , Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe , Power and gender in the history of Egungun , Dead fathers of Okpella , Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited , Igala masquerades and figure sculpture , Lost-wax casting along the Benue , Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell , Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes , The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories ; Introduction: the Middle Benue , The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue , Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys , A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai , Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue , Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades , Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye , Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue , Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau , Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks , Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin , Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective , The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay ; Introduction to Upper Benue arts , Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley , Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda , Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera , Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley , Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection