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Portrait of a Male Elder with Staff

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Portrait of an elderly Igbo man wearing a knit cap and jacket holding a wooden staff.
Male elder wearing a jacket and woollen hat holding a stick, 1932-1938. Photographer: G.I. Jones.

A photograph depicting a half-length portrait of an elderly Igbo man. The subject is wearing a textured, ribbed knit beanie and an unfastened, heavy-weight jacket with a discernible weave. He holds a light-colored, smooth-textured wooden staff vertically in his right hand. The image is a monochromatic sepia-toned print showing signs of chemical spotting and surface scratches, with a blue ink overlay across the frame. A partial view of another person is visible on the right edge, and blurred figures appear in the lower-left background.

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Onyeka Nwokike

Oct 10, 2026

The photographer, Gwilym Iwan Jones, was a Welsh anthropologist and photographer who documented life in Nigeria during the 1930s while serving as a colonial District Officer.

Onyeka Nwokike

Oct 10, 2026

Within the MAA Cambridge archive, this photograph (ID P.169766.GIJ) was originally stored in a brown envelope numbered C754/5, which contained photographs P.169719.GIJ through P.169770.GIJ. The broader G.I. Jones collection of West African material was purchased by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on February 1, 2014, from the photographer's widow, Ursula Jones, with funding provided in part by Jesus College and the Wenbam Smith Family (MAA Collections).

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