IDNO

N.13230.GIJ

Description

Object documentation photograph of a stylised carved wooden face mask represnting an animal, with the base sections of two curling horns on top of the head, protruding ridge from horns down to peg like snout, square holes for eyes, and rounded patterns on either side.

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]