IDNO

P.61288.GIJ

Description

Interior of a southern Ikwerre house adorned with eight decorated glazed? plates inset into the wall, a raised platform with an ancestral shrine in the right hand corner, ceremonial? pots, glass bottles, a wooden box, and an enamel bowl either on the floor or a shelf. In the foreground is a raffia mat on a raised platform, probably a bed?. The wall appears to be treated with a mud and cement wash.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southern Ibo

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Ikwerre

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.61280.GIJ to P.61354.GIJ were kept in box 1, now numbered C295/.

Publication: Same image published on John McCall’s G.I. Jones website with the following information: [Source: www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/, AF ]
This negative was found in pocket 95 of the negative album now numbered C21/.P.61280.GIJ to P.61354.GIJ were kept in box 1, now numbered C295/.
1. Index to Igbo music, shrines, architecture and other cultural artifacts
2. Other Igbo cultural items
3. Interior of house with plates inset in walls South Ikwerri (8th image).

In the original notes the region was labelled as Cross River, but research shows that the southern Ikwerre inhabit the southern Ibo region. (Jones: 1984, p. 7)

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 2/10/2007]