IDNO

N.13231.GIJ

Description

An object documentation photograph of a carved and painted wooden oval mask representing a human face with ears, eyebrows, a dark mark between the eyebrows, eyes, nose, open mouth with teeth. A small face is carved on the crown of the head.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Ogoni

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

1937 - 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.

The mask in this photograph was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by G. I. Jones in 1938, (Pitt Rivers Museum accession number 1938.15.32). It was collected by Jones in 1937.

See Jones.G.I. 1984: 189 for description of Ogoni masks representing human faces.

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