IDNO

T.169977.GIJ

Description

A close up side profile portrait of a character from the Rumoji Owu masquerade. The masquerader is covered in patterns cloths. He is wearing a white painted face mask and a janus helmet female mask, with one face white and the other black. [PB 18/08/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeastern Nigeria; Ikwerri

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; South Ikwerri

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/.