IDNO

LS.125537.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Arts, Crafts. Nigeria.
Yoruba carved images.
The Priest’s headdress on the left is covered with cowrie shells, & surmounted by a mounted figure. (In the Camb. Ethnological Museum)."

Place

W Africa; Europe British Isles; Nigeria; United Kingdom; southwestern Nigeria; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman (Major)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1912

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in ‘The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria’, opposite p.162, with the following caption:
"Ugly, but Revered
The object on the left is a head-dress composed of leather covered with cowrie-shells, the figure of a man on horseback surmounting the cap The centre figure is that of a girl kneeling, with a calabash on her head. The small carvings are said to represent dead children, and are male or female in form accordingly. These are Yoruba objects. See p. 34.." [JD 14/8/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: "The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria; an account of an official's seven years' experience in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes", by Major A. J. N. Tremearne (B.A. (Cantab.), F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., Sometime Scholar and Prizeman, Christ's College, Hausa Lecturer, and First Diplome in Anthropology, Cambridge). (J. B. Lippincott, 1912). The full text is available on Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/tailedheadhunte00tremgoog. [JD 14/8/2013]