IDNO

P.170721.GIJ

Description

The side gallery of an Mbari house. A clay sculpture of a district officer at his desk. On the wall behind a stylised painting of a man standing in side profile, holding a bullock by its horn. The man is smoking a pipe. A sword and a rectangle filled with chevrons complete the design. [PB 12/03/2024]

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

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.170715.GIJ - P.170801.GIJ were located in an Ilford paper box, now numbered C762/.

P.170715.GIJ - P.170733.GIJ were located in a paper folder, now numbered C762/1, and are a sequence of images of the same Mbari house.

Publication: Image published in Jones, G.I., 1937. Mbari Houses. pp.77-79 in The Nigerian Field Vol VI No 2., Plate C, and captioned "Umowa Mbari house, A.D.C. trying a case." [PB 05/03/2024]

Bibliographical Reference: G.I. Jones describes Mbari sculptures on pp. 82-92 and Mbari house architecture on p. 104 in Jones G.I., 1984. The Art of Eastern Nigeria. (Cambridge: CUP). [PB 05/03/2024]