IDNO

N.61283.GIJ

Description

An Alose shrine consisting of several clay? pots, palm fronds loosely woven into a screen?, and a bottle of schnapps?. The shrine encircles a tree, with palm frond encasing a second tree to the left. In the background is vegetation.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Cross River area

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

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

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This negative was found in pocket 9 of the negative album now numbered C19/.

Publication: Same image published on John McCall’s G.I. Jones website with the following information: [Source: www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/, AF ]
1. Index to Igbo music, shrines, architecture and other cultural artifacts
2. Alusi or Arunsi (shrines)
3. Alusi (3rd image). [Source: www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/, AF 1/10/2007]

Context: The Alose are “supernatural half-power” [Source:
Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Southern Nigeria, by E. Sidney Hartland, 1915. Journal of the Royal African Society, p. 275.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 8/4/2008]