IDNO

N.13229.GIJ

Description

An object documentation photograph of a stylised carved wooden face mask represnting an animal, with two curling horns on top of the head, protruding ridge from horns down to circular ?snout, four-sided holes and circular protruding patterns either side of ridge.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Ogoni

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 19/3/2008]