IDNO

N.169463.GIJ

Description

An Alusi tutelary and fertility female mud figure in a shrine comprising several mud figures. The figure has a broad base narrowing to a small head with a slit mouth containing several teeth. The body is limbless. Two parallel lines of notched scarification marks run vertically and horizontally on the body of the figure in a cross pattern. The figure is standing on a mud slope. In the background there is another figure. [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.