Shifting approaches, innovative methods: collection histories as a tool to move beyond William Fagg’s ‘Lower Niger Bronze Industry Mystery’
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Shifting_Approaches_Innovative_Methods.pdf
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Date published
2024
Abstract
At the end of 2019, the British Museum launched a new research project focusing on copper alloy objects associated with the Lower Niger Bronze Industry. The aim was to increase knowledge of these objects through a combination of provenance and collection history research and scientific analysis. This paper will outline the earlier art historical- focused approach to the Lower Niger Bronzes corpus and will then describe the new research and its methodology. Initial findings will be presented through a case study of objects from the Forcados River in the Niger Delta region of present- day Nigeria. In doing so, we aim to explore some of the outcomes and challenges experienced in implementing the aforementioned shift in approach and methodology.
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| Funder name | Awards |
Mellon Foundation | G-40900619 |
Journal title
Artl@s Bulletin
Volume
13
Issue
1
Publisher
Purdue University
Place of publication
West Lafayette
ISSN
2264-2668
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