The G.I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and culture

July 18, 2013
The G.I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and culture

A great resource for anyone interested in Southeastern Nigerian art, is the website featuring the photographic archive of G.I. Jones. It includes object pictures and rare field-photo’s from the different Igbo groups (and to a lesser extent Ibibio & Ogoni) taken in the 1930s. Jones’s book The Art of Southeastern Nigeria from 1984 is also a highly recommended read. Below a group of arusi figures from the Nri-Awka Igbo.

 

Arunsi Nri Waka Igbo

(both pictures courtesy of the G. I. Jones estate)

 

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