- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Someone wearing a helmet 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: 1998.480.73
- 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
1998.480.21An antelope cap mask used by the Bekarum association1998.480.21
1998.480.69Janus-faced skin-covered helmet mask1998.480.69
1998.480.22Patrick Achong covering a janus-faced helmet mask with skin, here he is tacking down the skin on the lips of the male face of the mask1998.480.22
1998.480.46An Obosu-Mbube Ntsebe mask being held probably by the owner who is usually a chief1998.480.46
2005.113.1183Archaeological and ethnographic photographs, mainly relating to iron-working in Nigeria.2005.113.1183
2005.113.334Archaeological and ethnographic photographs, mainly relating to iron-working in Nigeria.2005.113.334
1998.335.75Solider in uniform [West African Frotnier Force?] standing in front of thatched building.1998.335.75
2005.113.1231Archaeological and ethnographic photographs, mainly relating to iron-working in Nigeria.2005.113.1231