IDNO

N.13238.GIJ

Description

An exterior view of a building structure, a ngwomo ghost house, made of bamboo poles, with raffia mat roof and a decorated central pole. The back wall of the structure appears to be decorated with patterns, possibly indicating this is a Ngwomo ‘ghost house’ erected for a deceased adult male.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Ibibio [historically Anang]

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 26/3/2008]