Striking Iron Videos
  • STRIKING IRON: SOUNDING MBIRA
    STRIKING IRON: SOUNDING MBIRA Watch the Shona peoples of Zimbabwe play a Lamellophone or "mbira".
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/
  • STRIKING IRON: SOUNDING BELLS
    STRIKING IRON: SOUNDING BELLS Watch the making and playing of iron bells.
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/
  • STRIKING IRON: OSHELE
    STRIKING IRON: OSHELE Watch Striking Iron curator Tom Joyce describe this currency blade or "oshele".
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/

    Video produced by Peter Kirby for the Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • STRIKING IRON: LIGANDA DOA
    STRIKING IRON: LIGANDA DOA Watch Striking Iron curator Tom Joyce describe this currency blade known as "liganda doa".
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/

    Video produced by Peter Kirby for the Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • STRIKING IRON: IGBO STAFF
    STRIKING IRON: IGBO STAFF Watch Striking Iron curator Tom Joyce describe this titled man's staff from the Igbo peoples in Nigeria.
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/

    Video produced by Peter Kirby for the Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • STRIKING IRON: ASEN
    STRIKING IRON: ASEN Watch Striking Iron curator Tom Joyce describe this ancestral altar or "asen".
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/

    Video produced by Peter Kirby for the Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • STRIKING IRON: DOKWAZA: LAST OF THE AFRICAN IRON MASTERS
    STRIKING IRON: DOKWAZA: LAST OF THE AFRICAN IRON MASTERS Watch an archival documentary film profiling Dokwaza, a master African blacksmith.

    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/
  • STRIKING IRON: FORGING
    STRIKING IRON: FORGING Watch Striking Iron curator Tom Joyce describe the practice of forging iron in Africa.
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/

    Video produced by Peter Kirby for the Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • STRIKING IRON: ORISA OKO
    STRIKING IRON: ORISA OKO Watch Striking Iron curator Tom Joyce describe this staff called by the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria "opa Orisa Oko"
    For more information visit: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/striking-iron/

    Video produced by Peter Kirby for the Fowler Museum at UCLA
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