IDNO

P.169578.GIJ

Description

A half length portrait of a girl standing in front of a building with a thatched roof. The girl has a single cord necklet with a small coin hanging in the middle on her chest, small hoop earrings, and armlets. 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. She appears to have loss of skin pigmentation (?vitiligo or albinism). [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.