UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Phone: (310) 825-4361
- Email: fowlerinfo@arts.ucla.edu
- Website: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented. Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture and social action.
Collections at this institution
4-Ven-39 (La Robleda) Archives
The 4-Ven-39 (La Robleda) Archives results from excavations intermittently conducted from 1966 to 1969 at the headwaters of Medea Creek in Oak Park, Ventura County, California by James N. Hill and the graduate students of the UCLA Department of Anthropology field school. At the La Robleda excavation site, Hill directed randomly sampled digs in 10-centimeter increments that today form the largest sample size taken in California using these methods. It has become an extremely important research tool because of the unbiased nature of its collection. This area was possibly a seasonal Chumash hunting/butchering site, with evidence of occupation as early …
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Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections
The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist of ethnographic as well as archaeological pieces.
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California Indian Baskets
The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History's collection includes baskets made by California American Indians in the 19th and early 20th century. The baskets represent works from the Panamint Shoshone (Timbisha Shoshone Tribe), a western division of the Shoshonean peoples, located east of the Sierra Divide in Central California; the Pomo Indians located on the Northern coast of California; the Shasta Indians located on the Oregon border of California; and the Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk tribes in Northwestern California.
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Cerro Portezuelo Archives
The Cerro Portezuelo Archives is a result of excavations conducted by George Brainerd in 1954 and 1955 and by H. B. Nicholson in 1957. The site is located near the ancient shores of Lake Texcoco in Central Mexico (now Mexico City) and spans the Classic to Post-Classic time periods (A.D. 350 - 1500). The city began during the florescence of the larger nearby city of Teotihuacan but survived long after Teotihuacan's fall and into the Aztec Empire. This collection's ceramic objects represent the most complete and unbroken sequence for the region, making it an invaluable research tool for understanding the …
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Littlesalt Archive
The famous Navajo guide and interpreter, Max Littlesalt, worked for the largest survey expedition to date, the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition (1933-1938). He led the expedition and guided men to archaeological sites and to the dinosaur skeleton of what was to be the only dinosaur excavated in the area, Segisaurus, a small bipedal dinosaur. The digital collection contains undated photographs, largely color, of Littlesalt, his family, and the landscape surrounding his home in Tsegi Canyon, Arizona.
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Rainbow Bridge
The Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition (1933-1938) includes many photographs and negatives from the over 600 sites that comprised what was the largest survey expedition to date in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. Ralph Beals and George Brainerd, both lead archaeologists for the Expedition, became the first professors in a newly formed Department of Anthropology at UCLA, with Ralph Beals as head of the fledgling department. Photographs include the lab for the Expedition where work was carried out until 1945 in the top floor of the Powell Library.
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Report on Fieldwork with the Rainbow Bridge
"Report on Fieldwork with the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition, 1933-38" is the Masters of Arts thesis, co-authored by James Russell and Russell White, two teachers for the public schools of California who participated in the Expedition for the 1934 season. Under Lyndon Hargrave, Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona, who oversaw the Expedition during the first two years, Russell and White produced this in-depth study of several topics, including the Navajo Mud Dance, the dinosaur find, Segisaurus, and other archaeological work. Each chapter is accompanied by a comprehensive collection of photographs, hand tipped-into the publication.
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Southern Coastal California (Chumash & Gabrieleno) Indian Archaeolgical Collections
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