IDNO

P.39269.NWT

Description

?Two local people wearing costumes: a headwrap with one feather with a veil and ankle rattles made of folded palm fronds. Knee length wrapper. [Jean Borgatti, 11/11/14]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Sabongida

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

Collector / Expedition

Date

1909 - 1913

Collection Name

Northcote Thomas Collection

Source

Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was previously stored in a drawer. The cataloguer has marked the drawer C72/ and the envelope in which this print was kept C72/3/.

No Blench and Alexander catalogue record found for this photographic print.

Costume suggests the age group costumes in Akoko Edo LGA documented by Susan Picton in the late 1960s. Similar costumes are worn in Okpella Etsako LGA by Aminague Masquerades.

See also Dr Jean Borgatti: "Okpella Masking Traditions."African Arts XI, 4 1976, 24-33. [JB 11/11/2014]