IDNO

P.171776.GIJ

Description

The side gallery of an Mbari house. In the foreground a clay sculpture of a one-legged policeman. In the background sculptures of a European coming out of the water, a popular dance band and at the far end an ostrich. [Description from record P.170726.GIJ, PB 14/11/2024]

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.171730.GIJ - P.171808.GIJ were located together in an 'University of Camridge' envelope, now numbered C841/.

Publication: Image published in Jones, G.I., 1937. Mbari Houses. pp.77-79 in The Nigerian Field Vol VI No 2., Plate B, and captioned "Umowa Mbari house side gallery, with figures of a one-legged policeman, a European coming out of the water, a native band and dancers, human-headed goat and horned hunter and an ostrich."

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).

Bibliographical Reference: H.M. Cole describes Mbari houses and sculptures in Cole H.M., 1982. Mbari: Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).