IDNO

N.13042.GIJ

Description

An okwa or ceremonial food bowl made of wood propped up against a mud wall. The bowl is circular in shape with a round platform in the centre. The handle is made of a carved head with elongated, thick neck. and a rope/twine attached to the neck.

Physical Condition: Slight yellowing of negative; negative emulsion has been scratched.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

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 labelled “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 ]

Context: Jones notes the hospitality of offering guests kola and food, “In addition to kola, a visitor should be offered food. This is reduced to a token meal in which the visitor is presented with a small piece of preserved meat (usually a piece of boiled hide) on this type of dish. He is expected to cut off a small piece of this on the cutting block, to add a portion of the sauce from the central hollow to it by dipping it in or by using an iron spoon and then to eat it” (Jones, 1984, p. 120).

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 16/10/2007]