IDNO

T.170092.GIJ

Description

A documentation photograph of a skin-covered head, representing a beautiful female spirit in Ikem or Ekpe (Egbo) masquerade. [PB 08/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeastern Nigeria; Creek Town; Old Calabar

Cultural Affliation

Ibibio

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. 101, p. 193, and captioned as "Skin-covered head: representing beautiful female spirit in Ikem or Ekpe (Egbo) masquerade, from Creek Town, Old Calabar. Efik Ibibio." [PB 08/09/2023]