IDNO

T.169985.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of two carved wooden spoons. The spoon on the left of the image has a rectangular flat bowl, with concave vertical sides. The face has a stylised bird motif. The handle is grooved rings with a semicircular finial. The spoon on the right has a plain bowl wand a long handle formed from a variety of geometric shapes ending in a spear point. The spoon on the right is twice the length of the spoon on the left. [PB 24/08/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

September 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/.