IDNO

N.169428.GIJ

Description

A masquerader dancing in an Ekeleke play. The masquerader is wearing a tall white faced headdress, with a coiled comb. The masquerader's face is covered with a cloth and his body draped in other printed cloths. He is dancing on wooden stilts which are wrapped in striped cloth. An attendant is standing nearby. He is wearing a striped cloth over his shoulders, a white shirt and a chequered cloth wrapper. In the background are spectators and trees.[PB 30/03/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Orsu

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1930 - 1939

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Jones, Ursula

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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

N.169401.GIJ - N.169436.GIJ are located on a film roll, now numbered C753/5/12/.