Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited in the Micro Gallery MAA from 13 March 2013 - 19 May 2014 as a means to raise awareness and funding for the acquisition of the G.I. Jones Collection. The exhibition label reads: 'Stool. Wood. Probably Nri/Awka region, Nigeria. Small mobile stools were used by women in markets, but large stools with openwork designs, carved from one piece of wood, were used by senior members of the community or the titled Ozo society. Different Ozo ranks gave members the rights to certain items of clothing and display, and forbade titled men to sit on the ground. More research is needed to identify this stool’s origins and how it was used.'
Event Date 4/6/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Publications by G.I. Jones: Jones, G. I., 1984. The Art of Eastern Nigeria. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Jones, G. I., 1989. Ibo Art. Shire Ethnography. Shire Publications.
Event Date 4/6/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Gwilyam Iwan 'G.I.' Jones (1904 - 1995) was a colonial officer in southern Nigeria from 1926 to 1946, before becoming Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. He undertook further periods of fieldwork and published major books on southern Nigeria that are still highly regarded for their sensitivity to historical complexity.
For more than twenty years, MAA has cared for Jones’ exceptionally rich photographic archive, which documents the great masquerade traditions and other aspects of the culture of the region. In February 2013 the Museum acquired part of Jones’ personal collection of artefacts, assembled over the decades he worked in Igboland, the Cross River and other regions. The group of masks, carvings and other works represent vital aspects of belief, history and art over the middle twentieth century.
The G.I. Jones collection of West African material was purchased on February 1 2014 from his widow Ursula Jones who generously allowed MAA to select from G.I.’s personal collection in her home. Purchase funded partly through donations by Jesus College, John Goodliffe, Margaret Risbeth and the Wenbam Smith Family (as of June 3 2014).
Event Date 4/6/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Circular wooden stool with openwork design of circles on the top layer and vertical bands on the bottom layer. Condition: Good.
Event Date 4/6/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cylindrical wooden stool, carved from one piece of wood. The seat is a concave disc and the base is a flat disc. The sides are decorated open work designs of circles on the top layer and vertical bands on the bottom layer. Central spiral pillar through stool.
Event Date 14/10/2021
Author: Louise Puckett