- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Patrick Achong carving a cap mask
- 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: 1998.480.58
- 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]
Further items to explore
1998.480.16Patrick Achong making a janus-faced skin-covered helmet mask1998.480.16
1998.480.65Patrick Achong carving a cap mask1998.480.65
1998.480.41One of a series of slides with Patrick Achong, a Boki man from the Cross River, showing the process of making a skin-covered helmet mask: in this one preparing the antelope skin to cover a wooden helmet mask1998.480.41
1998.480.42Patrick Achong covering a janus-faced helmet mask with skin1998.480.42
2005.113.181Archaeological and ethnographic photographs, mainly relating to iron-working in Nigeria.2005.113.181
2005.113.825Archaeological and ethnographic photographs, mainly relating to iron-working in Nigeria.2005.113.825
1998.304.5.107View of village from a rocky outcrop, women in the foreground below.1998.304.5.107
2005.113.661Archaeological and ethnographic photographs, mainly relating to iron-working in Nigeria.2005.113.661