IDNO

N.13186.GIJ

Description

A documention photograph of a wooden head mask consisting of two white and two black faces surmounted by a circular stool made of a calabash, with four seated figures with tusk horns sitting on the top. The base of the neck is expanded and hollowed out to fit on to the wearers head.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Ohuhu

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

1932 - 1938

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 “IBIBIO & OKWU WALL” by G. I. Jones, and numbered “C12/” by the cataloguer.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 9/4/2008]