IDNO

N.13227.GIJ

Description

Close up photograph of wall painting on the wall of a large building with a corrugated iron roof. The painting shows a canoe

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria; ?southern Cross River Area

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.

This image is one of a series of four photographs of the wall paintings around the outside of a building with a large corrugated iron roof. It is painted in a slightly different style than the work of the artist who painted the Ekpe (Egbo) society house in Umuajatta (Olokoro) village, and the ‘Mbaja’ wall on two sides of their market and public meeting place in Okwu village.

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


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]