IDNO

T.170099.GIJ

Description

A wooden mask oval in shape with a projection at the top. The face is humanistic and shows a dark scalloped hairline, slit eyes with dark brows, nose, mouth, kidney shaped ears, and hollowed cheekbones. A rectangular shaped protrusion is at the top of the head. [Description from record P.71918.GIJ, PB 22/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South Eastern Nigeria; Cross River

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Abiriba

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. 112, p. 209, and captioned as "Okwanku mask: carved by Omyani of the Aribiba tribe. Cross River Ibo." [PB 22/09/2023]