True Colours, Faux Flags, and Tattered Sales

Former Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. He is a co-editor of African Arts and of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, and author of The Arts of Ghana (1977) with Herbert M. Cole, Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity (1998), Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection (2002), and most recently Royal Arts of the Akan: West African Gold in Museum Liaunig (2009). dross@arts.ucla.edu