42 LEFT: Stirrup spout vessel. Moche, North coast, Peru. AD 100–800. Terracotta. H: 19 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA x88.804; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Lucas, Jr. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. ABOVE: Tapestry panel with crayfish. North or central coast (?), Peru. AD 1150–1450. Cotton, camelid hair. 161 x 112 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA x86.3950; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Lucas, Jr. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. LEFT: Panel with stepped design. North coast, Peru. AD 1150–1450. Camelid hair. 146 x 145 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA x94.27.11; Gift of the Neutrogena Corporation. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. BELOW: Snuff container (idlelo). Zulu, Natal Colony or the Zulu Kingdom, South Africa. Late 19th century. Horn, wood. L: 19 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA, x2002.2.55; Gift of Jay T. Last. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. BELOW: Male figure with child on back. Teke, DR Congo. Late 19th–early 20th century. Wood, brass, metal. H: 53.4 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA x65.5463; gift of the Wellcome Trust. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. LEFT: Cloak, nga-ti whakaue. Maori, Rotorua District, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Pre-1883. Harakeke, wool, feathers; double-pair weft twining, taniko weft twining. 87 x 150 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA, x65.8009; Gift of the Wellcome Trust. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. FOWLER AT FIFTY Los Angeles—The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, will honor its fiftieth anniversary with a suite of eight special exhibitions and programs that will be on view from October 13, 2013, to January and February of 2014. These intimate, thematic shows will highlight more than 800 artworks from the Fowler’s vast and acclaimed global collection. Fowler at Fifty spotlights particular strengths in the Fowler’s collections of art from Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas and features many works that are shown for the first time. Each installation takes a distinctive curatorial approach, demonstrating that collections are dynamic resources open to interpretation and reinterpretation. The various installations include the art of the Sepik River, ibeji twin figures of the Yoruba, the art of personal adornment among the Zulu, cloaks of the Maori, pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles, and the Natalie Wood donation of Chupicuaro ceramics. In addition, artist Amalia Mesa-Bains will create a New World Wunderkammer drawing from the museum’s collection, and another section looks at the development of the Fowler’s collection as a whole since its founding in 1963. The collection was seeded two years later with some 30,000 items from the Wellcome Ethnological Collection in London, which was dispersed after Sir Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936. It has been growing steadily and often in surprising directions. RIGHT: Figure for yam-harvest ritual, yina. Kwoma, Ambunti Mountains, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Wood, pigment. H: 115.5 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA, x64.843; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hursley. Photo: Don Cole, courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. MUSEUM News
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