IDNO

N.169396.GIJ

Description

A dancer in the Ekeleke masquerade, dancing in front of a crowd of spectators. The dancer is side onto the camera. He is dancing on stilts. He is wearing a small double-headed Janus helmet masks. He has a striped cloth over his head, plain short-sleeved shirt and checked wrapper. There is a row of spectators watching, sitting in chairs in front of a horizontal fence rail. There are spectators standing behind the rail. [PB 16/02/2023]

Place

W Africa; 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, Ursula

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

N.169075.GIJ - P.169626.GIJ were located together in a brown box, now numbered C753/.

N.169379.GIJ - N.169400.GIJ are located on a film roll, now numbered C753/5/11.