IDNO

T.169953.GIJ

Description

A Lughulu comic male face mask. The mask is wooden and square in shape with an overly exaggerated high rounded forehead, square bulbous eyes, rectangular shaped nose between the eyes, and protruding mouth with a slit; the cheeks are rounded, swollen and puffy. The mask is placed on a woven raffia cloth. [Description from record N.71784.GIJ, PB 27/07/2023]

A documentation photograph of an image of a man wearing a wooden face mask. The man is wearing a sackcloth over his head. The mask has bulbous eyes, cheeks, mouth and forehead. [PB 27/07/23]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Item

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: Cropped version of image published online on 'Jones Archive', Southern Illonois University, as 'Item4. Lugbulu [sic 'Lughulu'] Mask Comic male mask'. [Source: https://jonesarchive.siu.edu/photo-indexes/item-igbo/, PB 27/07/23]