A mask maker in his workshop holding a completed mask, representing a fish. The photograph was sent by G. I. Jones to the PRM at the time of the donation of this mask (1938.15.69). [CM 03/12/2008]

Collection type: Photograph
Description: A mask maker in his workshop holding a completed mask, representing a fish. The photograph was sent by G. I. Jones to the PRM at the time of the donation of this mask (1938.15.69). [CM 03/12/2008]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Cultural groups: Igbo; Ijo
Person: Photographer Edward R. Chadwick; PRM source Gwilym Iwan Jones
Date / Period: Date of print: By 1936 Date of photograph: Circa 1935
Acquisition information: Donated: 1938
Photographic process: Print silver
Dimensions: Length x Width 76 x 105 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1998.208.39.1 Previous PRM number: B.8.39.a
Research and responses: Chadwick's full identity is yet to be ascertained [CM 03/12/2008]
The photographer is almost definitely Edward R. Chadwick, a colonial officer with some anthropological knowledge who worked in south-east Nigeria at the same time as G.I. Jones. See p.355 of Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs: The Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo edited by Toyin Falola (2005: Africa Research and Publications), which lists Chadwick and Jones as colonial officers working in the area with anthropological knowledge during the 1930s. Some of Edward R. Chadwick's photographs from the 1930s have been published see 'An Ibo village art gallery by E.R. Chadwick; photographs by E.R. Chadwick, R.F. Hogarth and G.I. Jones reprinted in the Nigerian Field Volume 54 (3-4), October 1989 pages 130-132 [ZM 03/04/2014]

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A mask maker in his workshop holding a completed mask, representing a fish. The photograph was sent by G. I. Jones to the PRM at the time of the donation of this mask (1938.15.69). [CM 03/12/2008]

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