IDNO

P.170753.GIJ

Description

An old Mbari house, showing its pillars painted with geometric designs. In one of the spaces, in the centre of the image, is a clay sculpture of a leopard with the goat that it has killed. [PB 14/03/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Owerri West; Nekede town; Ihiagwa village

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/.

N.170747.GIJ - P.170754.GIJ were located in a paper folder, now numbered C762/3, and are a sequence of images of the same Mbari house.

Publication: Image published in Jones, G.I., 1984. The Art of Eastern Nigeria, (Cambridge: CUP), fig. 29. p. 104, and captioned "Old Mbari house. A year after its opening. Ihiagwa village. Oratta Ibo." [PB 15/03/2024]

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]