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Bernard Fagg

Also known as: Bernard Fagg; primary name: Fagg, Bernard Evelyn Buller
Details: individual; archaeologist; curator; British; Male
Life dates: 1915-1987
Biography: Archaeologist and museum curator. Son of William Percy Fagg (d.1939), antiquarian bookseller; younger brother of William Buller Fagg (1914-1992), ethnologist and art historian. Worked in Jos, Nigeria 1939-63 in the British colonial administration. Appointed surveyor for the Department of Antiquities, made director in 1947 (after Kenneth Murray). Excavated the Ropp rock shelter on the Jos Plateau in 1944. Discovered Nok culture. Founded the National Museum in Jos in 1962. Elected president of the Museums Association of Tropical Africa in 1961; made an MBE in 1962. Became curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford in 1963.
Bibliography: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67869

23 related objects

dance-dress; buttock-ornament

Museum number: Af1946,23.2 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

dress; buttock-ornament

Museum number: Af1946,23.3 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

dress; buttock-ornament

Museum number: Af1946,23.4 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

hat

Museum number: Af1946,23.7 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

head-band

Museum number: Af1946,23.5 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

leg-ornament

Museum number: Af1946,23.6.a-b |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

mancala-board

Museum number: Af1979,01.2481 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Uganda

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.15 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.14 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.18 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath; religious/ritual equipment

Museum number: Af1946,23.8 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.9 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.11 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.13 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.12 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.20 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.17 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.16 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.19 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

penis-sheath

Museum number: Af1946,23.10 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

textile

Museum number: Af1980,10.1 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wukari

whistle; hunting equipment

Museum number: Af1946,23.21 |
Ethnic group: x83897 Made by:Kaleri |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan

zither

Museum number: Af1946,23.1 |
Ethnic group: x83307 Made by:Birom |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Zawan