IDNO

P.71446.GIJ

Description

Pyramids at the Nsude Village Shrine, Abaja Ibo, Northern Ibo. A series of pyramida made of mud and arranged in a row consisting of rounded graduated levels or steps decreasing in size and culminating in a point at the top. The pyramids are surrounded by grasses and vegetation.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; ?South Eastern Nigeria; Nsude

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Abaja

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.71446.GIJ to P.71448.GIJ were wrapped in paper, now numbered C302/7/ and were presumed to have come from box 5now numbered C302/.

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. Pyramids Nsude village shrine, Abaja, Northern Igbo (10th image).

Publication: Similar images of the Nsude pyramids taken in 1935 with the caption, “These ten circular stepped pyramids were associated with the Uto deity and were made of mud.” African Legacy: School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, source [http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/africanlegacy/culture.htm]

Bibliographical Reference: Chadwick, E.R. 1935, “The Nsude Pyramids”, Nigerian Field, Vol. IV, No.2.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 19/11/2007]