IDNO

P.170784.GIJ

Description

A close up of two clay sculpture in a side gallery of an Mbari house. The figure on the left of the image is a blacksmith sitting on the ground with legs apart working with a rod and a bar on stone. The figure on the right of the image is his attendant, who sits on a block, holding the rods of a pair of bellows. [PB 15/03/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Imo state; Owerri; Ngior; Umundoche

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.170772.GIJ - P.170801.GIJ were located in a paper folder, now numbered C762/5, 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]