Tinted lantern slide showing ten boy performers in a masked play. Three of the boys in the back row wear palm or straw costumes and cover their faces with masks. Boys on the front row hold up masks. Epke (meaning "leopard") masquerade has a long history in Nigeria, and is a cultural play popular among Ekik and Ibibio groups. Traditional masks were made with animal skin. Epke mimics the movements of animals, and was traditionally used in order to enforce laws, and is also practised on festival days. Taking part in epke masquerades was traditionally and is for men only, and women are barred from seeing certain masquerades. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78495
- Date published
- 1930/1940
- Dates
- 1930/1940
- Format
- Lantern slides Photographs
- Pages
- lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
- Place Discussed
- Africa Calabar Cross River Nigeria populated places
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSWC47-LS9-58.tif
- Rights
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/664af5ab06d5c1c2c05d9fc240928f56
