IDNO

P.169560.GIJ

Description

A masquerader dancing in an Ekeleke play. He has his back to the camera. The masquerader's face is covered with cloths and his body draped in other printed cloths. He is dancing on wooden stilts. An attendant is standing alongside to the right. He is wearing a striped cloth over his shoulders, a white shirt and a chequered cloth wrapper. Another attendant stands to the left, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts. In the background are spectators and trees. [PB 06/07/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast 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/.

P.169557.GIJ - P.169582.GIJ were located in a Kodak envelope now numbered C753/1.

Images P.169560.GIJ to P.169564.GIJ are a sequence of images of the same masquerade.

Related Archive: Prints P.169560.GIJ to P.169562.GIJ are of the same masquerader.