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
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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