IDNO

T.170014.GIJ


Description

A documentation photograph of a wooden box with lid, carved in form of a goats head with protruding horns. Varnished and decorated with incised geometric pattern down the nose. The box is photographed on display in an exhibition.

The box is now in the care of MAA, reference 1950.522.1-2, and described as: "Wooden box (.1) with lid (.2), carved in form of a goats head with protruding horns. Varnished and decorated with incised geometric pattern down the nose." [PB 31/08/2023]


Place

W Africa; Nigeria


Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]


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/.


FM:310542

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