IDNO

P.74002.GIJ

Description

A modern painting by a pupil of K.C. Murray of a shrine in a rectangular border. The drawing depicts an enclosed shrine with a water pot, calabash, and other ritual objects flanked by tress and vegetation.

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

1936

Collection Name

Jones collection

Source

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.73891.GIJ to P.74008.GIJ were kept in box 12, now numbered C339/.
P.74000.GIJ to P.74004.GIJ were found wrapped in paper, now numbered C339/4/.

Context: Kenneth Murray was employed by the government to collect and document Nigerian art....

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Alicia Fentiman 27/2/2008]