IDNO

T.170119.GIJ

Description

A documentary photograph of a carved wooden Ekpo face mask in a rectangular facial shape with square holes for eyes, a square nose and zig-zag incised marks to resemble the mouth. On top of the mask is a rimmed square supported by three wooden peg-like supports. [PB 26/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern 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/.

Publication: Image published in Jones, G.I. 1984. The Art of Eastern Nigeria. (Cambridge: CUP), fig. 44 p. 131, and captioned as "Ekpo mask. abstract mode." [PB 26/09/2023]