Painting of uli body painting designs on paper.

Collection type: Object
Description: Painting of uli body painting designs on paper.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; East Central State
Cultural groups: Igbo
Person: Field collector Winifred Beatrice Yeatman; Field collector Church Missionary Society; PRM source Winifred Beatrice Yeatman
Date / Period: Date made: Circa by 1933
Date collected: circa 1933
Acquisition information: Donated: 1975
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 253 mm, Width: max 189 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1975.3.37
Research and responses: 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: Published as a PRM postcard, April 2002. [JC 5 7 2002] Reproduced in colour on page 30 of 'Beauty of the World', by Mike O'Hanlon, in Oxford Today: The University Magazine, Vol. XIV, no. 3 (Trinity Issue 2002), pp. 28-30. [JC 5 7 2002]