IDNO

T.169950.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of an image on display in an exhibition. The image is a close up of the same man as in image N.71790.GIJ.

A man modelling a mask. The wooden mask is oval shaped with two curved designs emanating from the top inwards to the centre. The face of the mask is oval shaped an there are defined areas for the hairline, two rounded markings on the forehead, slit eyes with overhanging eyebrows, two keloid markings on either side of the eyes, a long nose, open mouth with teeth. The mask has been smeared in a chalk/white paint which defines some of the facial features and the two curved/curled projections.
The mask is attached to the head with twine. [Description from record N.71790.GIJ, PB 27/07/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria; Cross River; Northern Bende division

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Alayi

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1930 - 1939; 1984

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.169937.GIJ - T.170148.GIJ were located together in a Agfa transparency box, now numbered C756/.

Publication: Similar image published online on 'Jones Archive', Southern Illonois University, as 'Alayi4. Mask Ugwu Eke village'.
[Source: https://jonesarchive.siu.edu/photo-indexes/alayi-isu-ikem-igbo/, PB 27/07/23]