IDNO

N.13200.GIJ

Description

An Ibibio tripod drum: skin covered wooden carved drum with three carved wooden human figures.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Ibibio

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.

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 Ibibio, Ijo and Ogoni
2. Ibibio
3. Tripod Drum (4th image).

Context: Jones writes about the membrane drums and notes that, “Membrane drums consisted of a cylinder, usually hollowed out of a tree trunk, with a membrane of skin stretched and pegged over the one end and with the other end left open. The tone was derived from the tension, which was controlled by the adjustable pegs.”

He goes on to say that drums were often accompanied by other instruments such as flutes, whistles, rattles, clappers of various sorts, single and double iron gongs and pots to form orchestras of varying sizes for dances and masquerades. (Jones, 1984, pp.114-115).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 19/12/2007]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 30/10/2012]