IDNO

P.73788.GIJ

Description

Uxurhe ancestral staffs leaning against a wall. The seven wooden staffs are carved in a

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; southern Nigeria; near Onitsha; Niger River; ?Asaba

Cultural Affliation

Edo; Ishan

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. Uxurhe Staffs The ancestral staffs are an Edo or Bini institution (vide Bradbury “The Benin Kingdom”, Ethnographic Survey, Westen African, Part XIII, Page 54) I photographed them in an Ika Igbo division - namely Asaba. But they were said to come from Ishan Edo. (18th image).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 26/2/2008]