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African Collections
The Mathers Museum holds several significant collections of African
materials. In all, the collection contains over 2,900 pieces representing
countries throughout West, East, and
Central Africa.
The strongest collections come from: the Tetela of eastern Zaire, obtained
by John White in the late 1920s and early
1930s; the Hausa and Yoruba of Nigeria, collected by Arnold Rubin, former professor of Art History at
UCLA; the Hausa of Nigeria, collected by renowned art historian Roy Sieber; and a large number of musical
instruments collected throughout Africa by pioneering ethnomusicologist,
Laura Boulton. Other African
collections include materials from Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire,
Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierre Leone, Uganda, and Zambia.
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