IDNO

T.169980.GIJ

Description

A close up view of Mgbedike masquerade. The masquerader is wearing an elaborate headdress carved of horns, figures, animals, with a fierce face with pronounced sharp teeth. On top of the top of the headdress is a man with a white face riding a horse? The mask is covered with palm fronds, omu, and the masquerader is holding an object (machete? or knife?) in one hand. The costume is made of cloth, palm fronds, shells, seeds and porcupine quills jutting out around the neck. In the background are trees, bystanders, and houses. [Description from record P.71561.GIJ, PB 18/08/23]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria; Onitsha province; Nri Awka

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

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/.