- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Painting on paper of uli body painting designs.
- Cultural groups
- Igbo
- Person
- Maker Egbuso
- Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 27/09/1933?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 27 September 1933 ?
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Drawn, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 535 mm, Length: max 662 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.13.1003 Other numbers: 121069/1-22
- Research and responses
For collector's own account of Ibo body-painting and body-painting designs, including how he made his collection, as well as reproductions of some now in the PRM, see his 'Negro Abstract Art: Or Ibo Body Patterns', in South African Museums Association Bulletin, Vol. VI, no. 9 (March 1957), pp. 219-229. This article includes a numbered alphabetical list of 'Names of Body Patterns Painted with Uli', but the numbers do not correspond to those on the drawings themselves. (Copy in RDF.) [JC 2 9 1996]
For a discussion of the PRM's holdings of reproductions of uli designs on paper in relation to issues in the art-historical study of uli, see 'People Have Three Eyes: Ephemeral Art and the Archive in Southeastern Nigeria', by Sarah Adams, in Res, no. 48 (Autumn 2005), pp. 11-32; offprint in RDF: Researchers: Adams (Sarah). Four examples are illustrated (PRM 1932.46.4, 1932.46.4, 1942.12.1003, 1975.3.39). [JC 2 6 2006]
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in black and white as Figure 6 on page 17 of 'People Have Three Eyes: Ephemeral Art and the Archive in Southeastern Nigeria', by Sarah Adams, in Res, no. 48 (Autumn 2005), pp. 11-32; offprint in RDF: Researchers: Adams (Sarah). [JC 2 6 2006]
Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Reproduction, Drawing, Body Painting