Bernard Fagg

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Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg
Born	8 December 1915 Upper Norwood
Died	14 August 1987 Oxford
Nationality	British
Occupation	Archaeologist, Museum curator

Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg (December 8, 1915 - August 14, 1987) was a British archaeologist and Museum curator. He was born in Upper Norwood to William Percy Fagg, an antiquarian bookseller and his wife Lilian Fagg (née Buller). His brother was William Fagg. He studied classics, archaeology and anthropology at Downing College, University of Cambridge. After graduation he began to work for the British colonial administration in Jos, Nigeria, in 1939. He first encountered archaeological finds of what became later known as the Nok culture, after the village where the first terracotta figurines where found. In 1947 Fagg was appointed as the assistant surveyor of antiquities of the newly founded Department of Antiquities of the colonial administration. In 1952 he founded the National Museum in Jos, the first public museum in Nigeria. He became head in 1957 after the first director Kenneth Murray retired. After Nigeria became independent, Fagg became the curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1963.^[1]