IDNO

P.170951.GIJ

Description

A close up of a clay sculpture of a seated female figure in a side gallery of an Mbari house. She is wearing a dress and a painted headband. She is holding a snake in each hand, with the snakes coiled around her arms and other snakes down her body. She has a necklace with a cross, and a belt painted on her torso, and a pattern of concentric ovals on her navel. [Description from record P.762017.GIJ, PB 10/05/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Southeast Nigeria; Owerri North; Imo; 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 Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.170921.GIJ - P.171076.GIJ were located together in a brown box, now numbered C766/.

P.170934.GIJ - P.171076.GIJ were located in a paper folder now numbered C766/3/.

Context: G.I. Jones explains Mbari sculptures on pp 82-92 and Mbari house architecture on p 104 in Jones G.I. The Art of Eastern Nigeria

Bibliographical Reference: G.I. Jones explains 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 09/05/2024]

Context: Detailed notes by G.I. Jones on this house, each figure and the house plan are in the paper folder C766/1. The numbers 1 - 33 on print reverse and mounts relate to these notes and the plan indicates the positions of the figures. [PB 09/05/2024] . Cambridge: CUP.

Detailed notes by G.I. Jones on this house, each figure and the house plan are in the paper folder. The numbers 1 - 33 on print reverse and mounts relate to these notes and the plan indicates the positions of the figures.