IDNO

T.170004.GIJ

Description

Obugulu Mau masqueraders in performance. The masquerader in front is wearing an elaborate headdress consisting of colourful felt, string and tassels. The three masqueraders behind him are wearing headdresses with elaborate painted wooden crests. Behind them is a dancer wearing a waist cloth with tassels and bands below the knee. The masks are painted white with black markings around the eyes, nose, mouth and accentuating the eyebrows and cheeks and attached to a harlequin-like costume. In the background are spectators and trees. [PB 25/08/2023]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; IsuOchi

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/.