1975.3.43

Collection type

Object

Description

Painting of uli body painting designs on paper.

Geographical reference

Nigeria

Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria

Southern Nigeria Anambra state Awka

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, Material Plant Sap, Process Painted

Dimensions

Width: max 210 mm, Length: max 337 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1975.3.43

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

Reproduced as figure 86 on page 91 of Volume II (Illustrations) of 'Uli Painting and Identity: Twentieth-Century Developments in Art in the Igbo-Speaking Region of Nigeria', by Elizabeth Anne Willis (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Ph.D. thesis, 1997). Region is identified in the caption, material is identified as 'uli juice on light transparent paper', and date is given as c. 1935. (See RDF: Researchers: Willis.) [JC 4 2 1998] Reproduced in black and white as figure 4 on page 9 of New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, by Simon Ottenberg (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, in association with National Museum of African Art, 1997). (Book published in conjunction with the exhibition The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, Nigeria, held at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, from 22 October 1997 to 26 April 1998.) (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 27 2 1998] Reproduced in black and white as figure 150 on page 182 of Contemporary African Art (World of Art), by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir (London: Thames and Hudson, 1999). [JC 17 2 2000]

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