Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Orhẹne Onirhe

ORHẸNE (PRIEST) OF ONIRHE AT ASABA.
Location: Onirhhe, Ahaba, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Category:
Ahaba,
Full Length Portraits,
Igbo,
Pairs,
Spirituality,
The Upper Class
Ichie Onyeso

CHIEF ONYESO WITH ỌFỌ, ỌTỌN, AND BAG.
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Entrance of a building
Category:
Buildings,
Housing,
Igbo,
Men,
Pairs,
People,
Sculptures,
Smiles,
The Elderly
Sunday, October 23, 2011

boy standing beside two life-sized wooden Igbo figures. Figures represent a man and a woman.
Location: Ihale [Ihiala?], Alaigbo | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker
Category:
Full Length Portraits,
Igbo,
Male Hairstyles,
Men,
People,
Sculptures,
The Youth
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staff at Fort Salisbury, New Calabar. Men seated on ground are wearing robes and caps and holding drums. Ibo masquerade head-dress on ground in front of a drum.
Location: "Fort Salisbury, New Calabar", Degema | Date: 1890-1905 | Credit: British Museum
Sword and sheath

Collected by Col. Guy Lee, DSO, MC, DL in 1910, who was at OGWASHI-OKU, between Onitsha & Benin & east of the Niger, on military expeditions [Ekumeku Movement]. Iron, 61 centimetres
Location: Ogwa Nshi Ukwu, Aniocha, Alaigbo | Date: 1910 (collection dqatE) | Credit:British Museum
Category:
Ekumeku,
Igbo,
Ogwa Nshi Ukwu,
War,
Weapons
Male hairstyle

young Igbo man with elaborate domed and plaited hair style, uli body painting on the forehead and cheeks.
Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker
Young man
Category:
Igbo,
Male Hairstyles,
Men,
People,
The Youth
Ichi scarification

Igbo man with ichi markings on his face. Hair plaited.
Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker
Category:
Body Markings,
Igbo,
Men,
People

Dramatically lit study of Ibo masquerade costume.
Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Crown Film
Category:
Igbo,
Masquerades
Agbogho Mmanwu
Category:
1940s,
Agboho Mmuo,
Crowds,
Dance,
Igbo,
Masquerades,
Music,
People
Mbari interior
Category:
Buildings,
Igbo,
Mbari,
Sculptures,
Temples
Mbari house
Category:
Buildings,
Igbo,
Mbari,
Sculptures,
Temples
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Mud-modellings

IBO MUD-MODELLINGS, N[N]EWI OTOLO, ONITSHA DISTRICT.
— Kitson
Location: Nnewi Otolo, Nnewi, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1912 | Credit: A. E. Kitson
Category:
Buildings,
Igbo,
Nnewi,
Sculptures
Painted figures

PAINTED WOODEN FIGURES OF ANIMALS, ETC., OF IBO CEREMONIAL DANCES, UMBAGBU OHA, WESTERN UDI HIGHLANDS; OIL-PALMS IN BACKGROUND.
— Kitson
Location: Umbagbu Oha, Udi, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1912 | Credit: A. E. Kitson
Category:
Crowds,
Igbo,
Men,
Sculptures,
Udi
Igbo Terracotta Statue
Category:
Children,
Igbo,
Mothers,
Sculptures,
Women
Chi Shrine

INTERIOR OF CHI SHRINE
— P. Amaury Talbot
Location: Nkarahia, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: P. Amaury Talbot
Category:
Buildings,
Igbo,
Interior,
Sculptures
Okorosia Mbari

DETAIL OF THE HEAD OF A "FORBIDDEN OKOROSIA MASKER IN THE CLOIS- TER OF THE MBARI TO ALA AT UMUOFEKE AGWA. MASQUERADES ARE PERFORMED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON THE FRINGE OF THE MBARI REGION, WHERE THIS STRUCTURE IS FOUND. ARTIST: OFFURUM.
Location: Umuofeke Agwa, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: Herbert M. Cole
Category:
Igbo,
Masquerades,
Mbari,
Sculptures
Mbari Cultural Art Centre

CHUKUEGGU'S "MBARI CULTURAL ART CENTRE" AT HIS HOME IN MBAISE, NORTH OF THE REGION OF TRADITIONAL CLAY MBARI HOUSES. NOTE THE VERBAL AND VISUAL EMPHASIS ON INDIGENOUS CULTURE.
Location: Amaigbo, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: Herbert M. Cole
Category:
Igbo,
Mbari,
Sculptures,
Temples
Ala

ALA IN A CLAY-ANT HILL MLBARI DEDICATED TO HER IN AMIGBO NGURU. ARTIST NNAJI, CA 1963. PHOTO 1966.
— Cole.
Location: Amaigbo, Alaigbo | Date: 1966 | Credit: Herbert M. Cole
Category:
1960s,
Altars,
Alusi,
Igbo,
Mbari,
Photos in colour,
Sculptures
Monday, September 19, 2011
Mbari plan

PLAN SHOWING THE PLACEMENT OF FIGURES AND VARIOUS KINDS OF ARCHITECTURAL SET-BACKS EMPLOYED TO INCREASE THE ILLUSION OF SIZE. THE MBARI, WITH THIRTY-FOUR FIGURES INCLUDING THE HEAD SPEERING THROUGH WINDOWS (RIGHT SIDE NEAREST CENTER), IS OF AVERAGE SIZE. THE MBARI TO OBIALA AT NDIAMA OBUBE. ARTIST: NNAJI.
— Herbert M. Cole
Location: Obiala, Alaigbo | Date: 1969 | Credit: Nnaji, Cole
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