IDNO

P.74004.GIJ

Description

A modern painting by a pupil of K.C. Murray of a boy crushing a lizard with a stick. Behind the figure is a row of trees and a palm tree.

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.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 especially in the south and south-eastern extension of the Lower Niger style. Jones dedicates his book, The Art of Eastern Nigeria to him..

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