IDNO

T.170134.GIJ

Description

An Ugbom headress placed on a stool. The headress is carved from wood and depicts the frontal view of a large male figure with a a rounded head with a high forehead, scarification marks in the centre of the forehead, slit eyes, squarish nose and protruding lips, neck, elongated body with arms to the side (hands broken off), protruding umbilicus, penis and sitting on a stool. The back of the stool has a rounded plate with a carved face. In the background is a mud wall. [Description from record N.72050.GIJ, PB 29/09/2023]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Eastern Nigeria; ?Bende division

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]

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/.

T.170134.GIJ found next to paper divider slip alongside a number of cardboard dividers, some taped together. All of: paper slip; 2 single cardboard dividers; and taped together cardboard dividers now numbered C756/1.