IDNO

T.170066.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of an image of part of the Nkporo Ifogu masquerade. An Mba dancer performing in the Ifogu masquerade, wearing an Ogu mask, an abstract wooden face mask with a knife-like protrusion from the forehead, three cylindrical protrusions and slits for the eyes). He is wearing a black velvet hat with a cloth band into which two feathers are stuck, a tight jersey with two small disks representing ?breasts, ivory bracelets, and a goat fur arm-band and wrappers of cloth around the waist. He is carrying an egg in one hand and a rattle in the other.The calves and feet appear to be decorated with a design in chalk (nzu)? In the background there are spectators and members of the ‘band’ are seated to the right next to a thatched building.[Description from record N.13106.GIJ, PB 15/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria; Cross River; Etitiama village

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Nkporo

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1930 - 1939

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/.

Image used in Jones G.I. The art of eastern Nigeria. 1984 Cambridge: CUP Fig 116 p 213. Caption: Ogu:wearing a black felt hat, scarlet singlet, Dutch block-print waistcloth'