- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- A skin-covered mask wrapped up in paper and tied with string, a technique used to help preserve this type of mask from damage by rodents and other pests when not in use.
- Cultural groups
- Ejagham
- Date / Period
- Date of print: 1970s Date of photograph: Between 1970 and Spring 1974, probably 1972, uncertain
- Acquisition information
- Found unentered: 2009
- Dimensions
- Image dimension 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1998.480.2
- Research and responses
The slides mounts are labeled Agfa-Gevaert, a merger which took place in 1964. This provides a terminus post quem for the developing and mounting of the photographs, and therefore probably the photographs themselves, of 1964. The original box of slides was labeled 'B. Fagg'. Catherine Fagg and Angela Rackham have both ruled out the idea that they were taken by Bernard Fagg. This suggests that the box was labeled for the attention of Bernard Fagg by the photographer. Since Bernard Fagg left the PRM in 1975 this provides a terminus ante quem for the slides. [CM 30/03/2009]
Research notes - Keith Nicklin, the photographer, included some of the images from this group of 79 slides in his article entitled 'Nigerian Skin-Covered Masks' published in the journal African Arts Volume 7, Number 3 (Spring 1974). This particular image is not included in the article. On 18 September 2013 I showed these images to Jill Salmons, Keith Nicklin's widow, who thinks they were probably taken in 1972 but definitely between 1970 and before Spring 1974. Jill identifed this particular image as a skin-covered mask wrapped in paper tied with string, which is a method of preserving this type of mask when not in use. [ZM 20/09/2013]
1998.480.2
A skin-covered mask wrapped up in paper and tied with string, a technique used to help preserve this type of mask from damage by rodents and other pests when not in use.
1998.480.2
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