Volume 13, Issue 1 (2024) African Art and Evidence
Introduction
What Does It Mean to Keep Kissing-Close to the Evidence, and Why Might It Matter?
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis
Articles
Making Absences Present: The Process of Visualizing Knowledge Production in Museum Records
Caitlin Glosser
Shifting approaches, innovative methods: collection histories as a tool to move beyond William Fagg’s ‘Lower Niger Bronze Industry Mystery’
Imogen Coulson, Julie Hudson, and Sam Nixon
Shaky Foundations: Cultural Classifications in Museum Collections Management Systems and the Endurance of Colonial-era Terminology
Carlee S. Forbes and Erica P. Jones
You Cannot See It: Navigating Yorùbá Religious Artistic Materials
Stephen A. Fọlárànmí
Art and Evidence in Totems of Uganda (2014)
Margaret Nagawa and Taga F. Nuwagaba
Issue guest edited by Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis.
Publication generously supported by the Clark Art Institute Research and Academic Program.
Caption for the cover illustration: Figure currently in the collection of the British Museum in London, United Kingdom, for which many details of its origins and history remain uncertain despite repeated study of the object. Figure, British Museum Af1952,11.1. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
