IDNO

LS.51083.GIJ

Description

A scene showing a man dressed in a white tunic, wrapper and felt hat standing next to the remains of disused and broken canons. There are two cylindrical canons and the remains of the wheels used to mount the canon. Around the canons are shells from the mangrove oysters. In the background is an open structure with a pitched roof and several wooden poles.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; ?Bile

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1930 - 1939

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Format

Lantern Slide Colour

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.51083.GIJ to LS.51089.GIJ were found with the piece of paper now numbered C246/4/ which was in wooden box formerly numbered XXX. It has now been renumbered C246/ by the cataloguer.

The inscription on the box as well as a descriptive list of slides pasted on the inside lid of the box indicates that it originally contained Lantern slides from Dovecote and belonged to J.H.Bullock. However, at the time of cataloguing, Lantern slides belonging to G.I. Jones were found inside it.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 18/3/2008]