IDNO

T.169987.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of a carved wooden tortoise with head extended and scales painted light and dark. [PB 24/08/2023]

The figure is now in the care of MAA, reference Z 24867, and described as: "Wooden carved headdress shaped like a tortoise. The whole is carved from a single piece of wood and the tortoise has a head with brass tack eyes, tail and feet. The shell is carved and painted in a chequer-board effect, with green recessed squares and black and white raised ones." [Description from object record Z 24867, PB 07/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Cross Rivers State; ?Agaba

Cultural Affliation

?Igbo; ?Atam

Named Person

Photographer

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

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1980 to 1989; 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/.