IDNO

T.170082.GIJ

Description

A full length portrait of an older woman standing in front of a building. She is wearing a polkadot headscarf and a long striped wrapper. Around her waist she wears a waistband made of beads and around her wrists thick ?ivory bracelets. She has a necklet with two bead and a rope of small beads draped over her left shoulder and diagonally across her body. [PB 19/09/2023]

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/.