IDNO

N.13302.GIJ

Description

Half-length portrait of an Igbo man, smiling, and wearing a white collar less shirt.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

?Igbo

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 “ISU-OCHI - etc. ...” by G. I. Jones, and numbered “C13/” by the cataloguer.

Context: This is one of a series of portraits of individuals for which no prints have been found (July 1999). The series runs from N.13292.GIJ to N.13316.GIJ

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 12/2/2008]