IDNO

P.170712.GIJ

Description

The side gallery of an Mbari house. In the foreground a mud sculpture of a one-legged policeman. In the background sculptures of a European coming out of the water, a popular dance band and at the far end an ostrich. [PB 01/03/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Imo State; Oratta; Umowa

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically Ibo]; Oratta Ibo

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

1936

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Format

Photomechanical Book Illustration

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.170705.GIJ - P.170714.GIJ were grouped together with a rubber band, an assemblage now numbered C761/.

Publication: Image published in Jones G.I. The Art of Eastern Nigeria. Fig 22 p 88. Cambridge: CUP. Caption: "Side Gallery"[PB 01/03/2024]

Publication: Image published in Jones, G.I., 1937. Mbari Houses in The Nigerian Field Vol VI No 2, pp.77-79, Plate B, and captioned "Umowa Mbari house side gallery, with figures of a one-legged policeman, a European coming out of the water, a native band and dancers, human-headed goat and horned hunter and an ostrich." [PB 01/03/2024]