African Museum
Wesam Berjaoui
April. 01, 2000
Professor Gloster-Coates
History 132
CRN# 24386
Museum Project
The first museum I went to was my favorite. I went to the Museum for African
Art displaying the Hair exhibit. The name of the exhibit sounded very uninteresting, but I
was proven wrong. The first thing that I learned from this exhibit is that in Africa the way
your hair is done represents your position in society. Your hair was probably one of the
most
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were not practicing the religion of Islam
in the right way. These people used dolls and carved out statues and used them for
guidance and for socializing. Probably some of the African groups that used figures
shown in the museum were not Muslims, but I am sure some of them were Muslim. It is
forbidden for a Muslim to worship any sort of idols or use them to possess power or to
tell their fortune.
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