IDNO

P.169572.GIJ

Description

A full length portrait of a young woman and boy standing in front of a building with a thatched roof. The girl appears to have loss of skin pigmentation, possibly vitiligo? or albinism?, and is wearing a wrapper, and has a single cord necklet, armlet and leg bands. She has a vertical cross-hatched tattoo line from neck to waist and a horizontal line across her abdomen, forming a cross centred on her navel. [PB 13/07/23]

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.

Related Archive: Images P.169572.GIJ to P.169581.GIJ are of members of the same compound. A man, woman and young woman appear to have either vitiligo? or albinism?, a loss of skin pigmentation. [PB 13/07/23]