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A great tree has fallen. The family of Ekpo Eyo, emiment archaeologist,
professor and museologist, requested that colleagues be informed of his
passing. Professor Eyo was awarded ACASA's leadership award in 2004.
Emails of condolences to his wife Augusta, his son, Etim, and
daughter-in-law Medupe, can be posted on the site and I will forward them
to the family. His funeral service is still being planned.
Drawing from his bio on the website of University of Maryland, College
Park, information below highlights aspects of his long and distinguished
career, though much more could be said about this outstanding scholar and
his contributions to the fields of African art history and archaeology:
Professor Ekpo Eyo specialized in African art. During his years as a
professor of art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland,
College Park, he directed archaeological field work at three important
Nigerian sites, Ile-Ife, Owo, and Ikom. He reported the findings of those
expeditions and his further research in the Unesco Courier, The West
African Journal of Archaeology, Africa Heute, Insight: The Quarterly of
World Affairs, African Arts and other journals.
Ekpo Eyo was the first Nigeran-born head of the Nigerian National
Commission for Museum and Monuments. His recent book From Shrines to
Showcases: Masterpieces of Nigerian Art was published in 2010 by the
Federal Ministry of Information and Communication, Abuja). His books lso
include Two Thousand Years of Nigerian Art (Imprimerie Marsens, Laussane)
and, with co-author Frank Willet, Treasures of Ancient Nigeria: A Legacy
of Two Thousand Years (Alfred Knopf, New York). Over the past few years,
he completed a manuscript (unpublished to date) on the royal arts of Owo,
a major focus of his research.
Professor Eyo was honored in 2004 with an ACASA Leadership Award and he
was named Smithsonian Regency Fellow in 1984. His work involved on-site
study of the monoliths of the Cross River region of eastern Nigeria, a
project funded by the French Dapper Foundation, the L.J. and Mary C.
Skaggs Foundation, and the University's Graduate School. He was also
consultant to a major exhibition of African art that opened in 1995 at the
Royal Academy of Art, London. Professor Eyo was a participant in an
international symposium, The Part of Archaeology in the Cross-Cultural
Dialogue between North and South, held in Switzerland under the
sponsorship of the Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological
Research and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Ekpo Eyo will forever be remembered for scholarly contributions and for
his devotion to his family and friends. We send our deepest condolences
to his family and to his many friends around the world.
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Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
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