IDNO

T.170121.GIJ

Description

An Ekpo mask in the “rounded mode”. The features of the mask consist of slit eyes, nose and mouth with jagged teeth, rectangular keloid markings on the side, an incised border or rim around the forehead. The mask is dark with a smooth and polished finish. [Description from record N.13169.GIJ, PB 26/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; South 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. 41 p. 129, and captioned as "Ekpo mask. rounded mode." [PB 26/09/2023]