Large, heavy, wooden door. Slightly convex with two angular butts and a metal rod. Decorated with carved plain bands at the top and bottom, and geometrical designs in notch carving, concentric circles and ellipses framed by lozenges and bands of straight lines. Engraved on the back. [RH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Large, heavy, wooden door. Slightly convex with two angular butts and a metal rod. Decorated with carved plain bands at the top and bottom, and geometrical designs in notch carving, concentric circles and ellipses framed by lozenges and bands of straight lines. Engraved on the back. [RH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Awka Ibom State
Cultural groups: Igbo
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Cast
Dimensions: Depth: max 66 mm, Width: max 978 mm, Length: max 2665 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.1668 Other numbers: 100061
Associated publications: Listed with 1942.13.1669 as numbers 97 and 98 on page 13 of Art from the Guinea Coast (Pitt Rivers Museum, Illustrated Catalogue No. 1), Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum (1965): 'NIGERIA Eastern Region ... 97 & 98. Wooden doors for compounds in the style known as "chip carving", as still practised in Awka. Ibo (1942.13.1668.) (226.7 cm.) (1942.13.1669[.)] (226.7 cm.)'. (For details of exhibition, see under 'Display History'.) [JC 12 9 2013]

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