IDNO

P.73827.GIJ

Description

Two medicine shrines outside a thatched building. The shrines consist of pieces of wood tied together with twine. In front of the shrines are rounded platforms and behind the shrines is a building with a thatched roof.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

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.73815.GIJ to P.73888.GIJ were kept in box 9, now numbered C337/.

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 Ohafia/Abam Igbo
2. Shrines (arunsi)
3. Arunsi shrine in Ohafia (1st image).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 8/4/2008]