IDNO

P.73760.GIJ

Description

A large mud figure of a chief sitting a raised platform inside a building. The seated figure shows a male with a rounded face with painted spiky hair and a feather on top, wearing a white tunic decorated with patterned designs, arms to either side with white bracelets, in one hand the chief is holding a white rolled up paper?, he is sitting on a raised platform, with legs apart and wearing white shoes. In front of the figure is a pile of cowrie shells. The walls of the interior are smooth and the roof is pitched and made of wooden rafters.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; North Ika

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.73718.GIJ to P.73813.GIJ were kept in box 16, now numbered C334/.

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 Ika Igbo (Western Igbo)
2. Figure of chief North Ika (6th image).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 5/3/2008]