IDNO

T.170116.GIJ

Description

A documentation image of a wooden face mask on display in an exhibition. The mask has a wide mouth and deep-set eye slits. There are two faces carved into the top of the mask under a ridge of rectangular block shapes. There is a a necklace of nutshells on a plaited cord draped around the mask. [PB 26/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria

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/.