IDNO

P.71448.GIJ

Description

A photograph of G.I. Jones sitting in front of a pyramid at the Nsude Village Shrine, Abaja Ibo, Northern Ibo. The pyramid is made of mud and consists of rounded graduated steps decreasing in size and culminating in a point at the top. The pyramids are surrounded by grasses and vegetation. GI is wearing shorts, white shirt and pith helmet.

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 5 now 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. Jones posing in front of pyramid Nsude village shrine, Abaja, Northern Igbo (11th 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]