IDNO

N.13232.GIJ

Description

An object documentation photograph of a carved and painted wooden mask represnting a human face with rectangular ‘ears’, carved coiffure, eyebrows, a dark mark between the eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips. It appears as if the lower jaw is moveable, dividing between the lips.

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.

Publication: See Jones.G.I. 1984: 189 for description of Ogoni masks representing human faces, and figure 97 on p. 188 for an image of a similar mask.

No print was found for this image. June 1999.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 19/3/2008]