Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
The pre-1940s history, indigenous culture, and heritage of the Ìgbò and their neighbours.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Original (correct) names/spellings for Igbo City's/Towns/Villages
* Abakaliki is Abakaleke
* Afikpo is Ehugbo
* Asaba is Ahaba
* Awgu is Ogu
* Awka is Oka
* Bonny is Ubani
* Enugu is Enugwu
* Ibusa is Igbuzor
* Igrita is Igwuruta
* Oguta is Ugwuta
* Onitsha is Onicha
* Owerri is Owerre
* Oyigbo is Obigbo
* Port Harcourt is Diobu
....plus others....
* Afikpo is Ehugbo
* Asaba is Ahaba
* Awgu is Ogu
* Awka is Oka
* Bonny is Ubani
* Enugu is Enugwu
* Ibusa is Igbuzor
* Igrita is Igwuruta
* Oguta is Ugwuta
* Onitsha is Onicha
* Owerri is Owerre
* Oyigbo is Obigbo
* Port Harcourt is Diobu
....plus others....
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Probable Igbo Woman
It is unknown whether she is definitely Igbo, but her headdress looks so. She was noted as Nigerian.
Two Igbo Boys with Dead Primate
Caption:
Young gorilla (?) killed at Asaba, So. Nigeria, West Arfica, 1906. The two boys belong to the Ibo tribe.
— R. L. Beard
Location: Ahaba, Alaigbo | Date: 1906 | Credit: R. L. Beard
A Medicine Man with his Stock in Trade
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1922 | Credit: Basden
Magnificent Headdress of Awka Woman [Igbo]
Caption:
Her scanty toilet has been completed, apparently to her entire satisfaction, and the gladiatorial headdress represents the dernier cri of in the fashion world of Awka. The crest of wood, ornamented with large pearl buttons, is tightly secured on the top of her head.
— Thomas Whitridge Northcote
Location: Oka, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Discomfort of fashion
Caption:
The vocation of this woman of Achala, Ibo country, is dancing, but the regulation anklet plates on her legs confine her dance-steps to a few measured "pas" made slowly and with caution to right and left.
— Thomas Whitridge Northcote
Location: Achala, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Willing Submission to Life Sentence to the Stocks [Igbo]
Caption:
Immense ankle plates are a main part of female costume in the Ibo country. Many of them are made in Birmingham and afterwards decorated with incised designs by native smiths. The women wear them permanently, stuffing rags between the skin and the metal to prevent chafing, and walking with a curious swing of the leg to avoid rubbing the plates together.
— Thomas Whitridge Northcote
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Town Deities [Alusi], Adonta, Near Ogwashi [Ukwu]
Location: Adonta, Aniocha, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Basden
Puddling Clay Preparatory to House Building
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1930 | Credit: Basden
Climbing A Palm-Tree for Nuts and Wine
Caption:
A rope composed of twisted creepers encircles the trunk and the body of the climber, and by a series of jerks it is raised a foot or more at a time, the weight of the man's body preventing it from slipping. The rapidity with which these climbers literally "walk" up a palm-tree is marvellous. The large knife is for the purpose of severing the bunches of nuts.
— George Thomas Basden
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: George Thomas Basden