photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A62.54
- Description
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Photograph (black and white), from an album; view of person [male or female? adult or child?] dressed in elaborate masquerade costume. Wearing fringed cloth and personal-ornaments around body, painted [?] legs, patterned Ibo cloth worn as cloak, tall feather head-dress, holding stick. Fence and trees in background. Nigeria
Gelatin silver print; sepia.
- Production date
- 1927-1943 (circa;?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 11 centimetres
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Width: 6.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Although the cloth is Ibo, it could have been traded to anywhere in the Niger Delta. F Barley, 10/02/1998.
Geography: Location and ethnic group suggested by N F Barley, 10/03/1998.
Circumstances: [CHA-] PIC DOC 67? Unclear whether PIC DOC relates to whole album.
Biography: [CHA-] PIC DOC 67?
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum?
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A62.54
