IDNO

T.170120.GIJ

Description

A wooden Ekpo mask in the angular style with pointed features. The head of the mask is divided into four plains; curled horns on top protruding from a decorated border, a forehead with three markings (keloids), slit half-moon shaped eyes, pointed nose, and mouth with a moveable jaw. The mask is painted in white and darker pigments. [Description from record P.71342.GIJ, 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. 42 p. 130, and captioned as "Ekpo mask. angular mode." [PB 26/09/2023]