IDNO

T.170075.GIJ

Description

A portrait of a street market. In the foreground a woman vendor crouches on the ground looking back at the camera. She is wearing a white short-sleeved blouse and a waist cloth. She is holding white sticks in her left hand. On the ground are bowls and baskets and a mat on which are balls of ?dough and groundnuts. A woman is bending over choosing a handful of nuts. A young woman in the background sits inside a basket with another basket alongside her containing cloths or leaves. Children are standing looking on and a man walking by, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and a wrapper. There is a mud building and a thatched fence in the background [PB 15/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

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/.