IDNO

P.61276.GIJ

Description

A scene in Lagos of police clearing an area for a play. The police are dressed in khaki shorts and tops, wearing berets and holding sticks. In the background is a group of spectators. A three story building is behind made of concrete blocks consisting ofshop on the ground floor with the sign “Alhaji Ibrahim Saidu” above large wooden doors, windows with shutters on the first and second floors are open with spectators watching, some with balconies. Also visible are power lines.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Lagos

Cultural Affliation

Yoruba

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

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.61128.GIJ to P.61278.GIJ were kept in box 13, now numbered C294/.

Context: GI Jones photographed a masquerade in Lagos in the 1930s. He did not record what the name of the play was or what it was about. There are no written documents pertaining to this play.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 10/3/2008]