IDNO

N.169462.GIJ

Description

An Alusi tutelary and fertility mud figure in a shrine containing several figures. The figure has a broad base narrowing to a small head with a slit mouth with four hair coils. The body is limbless. There are raised square and rectangular shapes on the body. The figure is standing at the bottom of a mud slope. In the background there is another figure next to a tree. [PB 11/05/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Isu

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.169461.GIJ - N.169493.GIJ are located on a film roll, now numbered C753/5/14.

Related Image: Negatives N.169462.GIJ to N.169474.GIJ are of the same Alusi shrine. [PB 12/01/2023]