IDNO

T.169970.GIJ

Description

A parade of masqueraders in the Nkporo Ifogu masquerade. There are two male dancers dressed as women wearing small white face masks with diagonal protrusions and woolly hats. The small masks only cover part of the face. Sacking covers rest of the face, and a scarf and knitted hat cover the head. They wear small tight floral pattern tops, white shorts, neck and waist ornaments, and ankle rattles, and each carries a feather whisk and a hand mirror.
There are two masqueraders wearing Ogu wooden face masks, with a knife-like protrusion from the forehead, three cylindrical protrusions, slits for the eyes and painted in dark and light colours. They are wearing a patterned, knitted hat (with a pompom on the back) with a cloth band into which a feather is stuck, a tight pale jersey, and a striped cross over neck and chest ornament. One is beating a drum with a stick the other a drum with his hand.
Another masquerader is dressed in white shirt, shorts and leggings wearing an Ogu mask, an abstract mask with a knife-like protrusion from the forehead, three cylindrical protrusions and slits for the eyes.
Behind them are a number of attendants, wearing raffia skirts. [PB 17/08/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria; Cross River; Elugu village

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Nkporo

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1930 - 1939; October 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/.