IDNO

N.13237.GIJ

Description

View of a Christian (?grave) monument in the form of a cross, sheltered under a raffia mat pointed roof sloping to the ground. Possibly a Ngwomo ‘ghost house’ erected for a deceased male.
The base of the monument has text painted on it, including the words “IN ... LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED FATHER”.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

?Anang; ?Ibibio Christian

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.

See Jones.G.I. 1984: 105-106.

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