IDNO

P.73800.GIJ

Description

A portable household shrine consisting of a rectangular base and two Ikenga figures buried within it. The figure on the left has abstract paddle shaped sides and is decorated with shells; the figure on the right is abstract with two pointed horns.

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. Portable household shrine “I was not long enough in the area to find out the names and function of the two figures. One looks like an ancestral figure and one an Ikenga.” North Ika (16th image).

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