Sleeping Beauties

Headrest or stool  20th century
Dagaaba peoples, Burkina Faso and Ghana 
wood, metal repairs 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X91.303 
L2012.0701.060 

Double stool or headrest  20th century 
Nuna peoples, Burkina Faso 
wood 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X89.371 
L2012.0701.039 

Headrest (mutsago)    late 19th–early 20th century 
Central Shona peoples, Zimbabwe 
wood 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; Gift of the Wellcome Trust 
X65.5839 
L2012.0701.003

Headrest (mutsago) late 19th–early 20th century
Northeastern Shona and Barwe-Tonga peoples, Zimbabwe and Mozambique 
wood 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X87.1511 
L2012.0701.034

Headrest (mutsago) late 19th–early 20th century
Central and Northern Shona peoples, Zimbabwe 
wood, fiber string, copper wire 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; Gift of the Wellcome Trust 
X65.11667 
L2012.0701.005

Headrest  20th century 
Southeastern Shona or Tsonga peoples, Zimbabwe and Mozambique 
wood 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X91.57 
L2012.0701.047 

Headrest  late 19th–early 20th century
Hemba peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo 
wood, metal 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X91.67 
L2012.0701.049 

Headrest  20th century
China 
rattan, wood 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; Anonymous Gift 
X2004.3.1 
L2012.0701.078 

Headrest  19th–mid-20th century
Imbuando peoples, Lower Sepik, Papua New Guinea 
wood, cane 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X65.7299 
L2012.0701.004 

Ceramic pillow  19th century
China 
ceramic, glaze 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; Transfer from the UCLA Japanese Gardens 
X76.119A,B 
L2012.0701.006 

Headrest  19th century 
China 
wood, lacquer 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X91.71 
L2012.0701.051

Ceramic pillow  12th–13th century 
China 
stoneware, glaze 
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection 
X92.15 
L2012.0701.071 

Headrest (kali)   n. d.
Fiji
wood
Fowler Museum at UCLA; The Jerome L. Joss Collection
X87.376
L2012.0701.032