IDNO

P.170743.GIJ

Description

A portrait of two young men preparing paint to decorate an Mbari house. The man in the centre is sitting on a block of wood, with legs either side of a rectangular stone palette on which he is mixing paint from materials in a bowl and basket next to the palette. His hands and legs are splattered with the paint. A young man is standing to the right of the image, holding a white bowl. His legs and hands are also splattered with paint. In the background in the side gallery of the house are two seated Mammywater figures. [PB 12/03/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Owerri West; Ngor; Umundoche town

Cultural Affliation

Igbo [historically 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.170734.GIJ - N.170746.GIJ were located in a paper folder, now numbered C762/2, and are a sequence of images of the same Mbari house.

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]