IDNO

N.13033.GIJ

Description

A man holding up at wooden slit drum (with a representation of a human head at one end of the drum), in front of a thatched open shelter. Two young men standing at right of image.

The drum is cylindrical in shape and made from a log and carved out through a narrow longitudinal slit. The head of the drum consists of a high forehead with arched brows, the almond shaped eyes and nose are situated closely together, the lip is symbolised by single lip, the neck is thick.
The drum is cylindrical in shape made from a log and carved out through a narrow longitudinal slit.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria; Oil Rivers

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Ikwerre

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

1932 - 1939

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This negative was kept in a film storage album labeled “Misc” by G. I. Jones, and numbered “C10/” by the cataloguer.

Publication: Same image published on John McCall’s G.I. Jones website with the following information: [Source: www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/, AF ]
1. Index to Igbo music, shrines, architecture and other cultural artifacts
2. Some Ikoro (slit drums)
3. Ufie drum, Southern Ikwerri (4th image).

Context:
Jones discusses the two different types of instruments which the name drum is given, namely true or membrane drums and slit drums, which were really gongs....A slit drum was usually made from a log in which the two ends had been left intact but in which the centre had been removed through a narrow longitudinal slit. (Jones, 1984, p.115).

Bibliographical Reference: Jones, G.I. 1984. The Art of Eastern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press)

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 12/10/2007]