IDNO

N.169532.GIJ

Description

An Alusi shrine tutelary and fertility mud sculpture standing in a clearing among trees. The upper part of the rectangular mound has several figures moulded into it with humanoid and zoomorphic features, the lower part with small ridges in a criss-cross pattern so that the surface looks like a net. [PB 16/06/2023]

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.169527.GIJ - N.169556.GIJ are located on a film roll, now numbered C753/5/16.