IDNO

T.170017.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of a carved wooden helmet mask on display in an exhibition, against a backdrop of an Ibo textile. The mask carved from dark wood, and has stylised hair with four buns and a central crest. The face has angled forehead, deep-set eye slits, a small nose and two thick rings around the neck. [PB 31/08/2023]

The figure is now in the care of MAA, reference 1927.2028, and described as: "Bundu or Sowei mask from the women's Sande society, representing a woman's head with elaborate hairstyle and rolls of neck fat." [Description from object record 1927.2028, PB 07/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Sierra Leone; Mende Land

Cultural Affliation

Mende

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/.