IDNO

T.170137.GIJ

Description

Two Ugbom headdress placed on the ground. The two figures are male with large, angular and stylised heads and they are seated on stools. The faces are rounded and depict a high protruding forehead with keloid markings in the centre, slit eyes, long sloped nose, and exaggerated, protruding lips and chin, projecting well beyond the nose and upper part of the face, and keloid markings on the sides of the face. The figures are seated with two arms to either side, small breasts, umbilicus and protruding penis, the legs are small (out of proportion with the upper torso) and are perched on a wooden base. Around the edge of the base are holes used for attaching the figure. The figure on the left is slightly smaller than the one on the right. In the background is a mud wall of a building. [Description from record P.72155.GI, 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/.