IDNO

T.170043.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of a painted wooden face mask. The mask is resting on a wooden block. The image shows the mask in profile, including the basketwork to cover the wearer's face. [PB 08/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; River Niger

Cultural Affliation

Southern Edo

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/.

Publication: Image published in Jones, G.I. 1984. The Art of Eastern Nigeria. (Cambridge: CUP), fig. 55 p. 149, and captioned as "Head mask: 'from right bank of Niger. Sobo country'. probably Urhobo/Isoko (B.M.). Southern Edo." [PB 08/09/2023]