IDNO

T.169960.GIJ

Description

The inside of an Obu house showing five large life-size figures standing on a raised platform. The figures are painted in different coloured pigments and are dressed in cotton waist cloths and the other features and accessories are painted. The figures from left to right: a woman with coiled leg rings around the ankles, a male holding a stick or staff, a women holding a basket on her shoulder, a seated woman figure holding a baby in her lap, and a tall male next to her. The walls behind the figures are painted with designs of circles and other geometric patterns. The sloping roof is mad of local materials. [Description from record P.73888.GIJ, PB 28/07/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Asaga

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Ohaffia

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/.