IDNO

T.169990.GIJ

Description

Ifogu Nkporo play showing a close up of the head and shoulders three quarters profile portrait of a masquerader wearing a small female face mask, a wool hat, a women’s blouse with a floral pattern, and plant fibre striped neck-ornament. The mask is painted white with detail in a darker colour, clearly delineating the eyes, mouth and facial marks on the cheek. Perched on top of the mask is a vertical protrusion with a smaller carved janus head (with similar facial markings as the face mask) and a rounded wooden finial on the top. [Description from record N.13140.GIJ , PB 24/08/2023]

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; 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/.