IDNO

P.169567.GIJ

Description

An Okorosie or Okoroshi masquerade with a ‘beautiful’ female charater. The masquerader is wearing a wooden white face mask that is oval in shape with a superstructure of another carved head with plaits on top. The white face is accentuated with black markings and with two diagonal lines on the cheeks. The masquerader is draped in several cloths. The masquerader is standing in front of a woven fence with trees in the background.[Description from P.73918.GIJ] [PB 06/07/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Eziama

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.