Original

Igbo names and spellings for various settlements
Abakaliki is Abankaleke; Afikpo is Ehugbo; Awgu is Ogu; Awka is Oka; Bonny is Ubani; Enugu is Enugwu; Ibusa is Igbuzö; Igrita is Igwuruta; Oguta is Ugwuta; Onitsha is Onicha; Owerri is Owere; Oyigbo is Obigbo... any more will be added.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Isele Asaba



CHIEF OF ISẸLE ASABA.


Location: Isele Asaba, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas

Orhẹne Onirhe



ORHẸNE (PRIEST) OF ONIRHE AT ASABA.


Location: Onirhhe, Ahaba, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas

Ichie Onyeso



CHIEF ONYESO WITH ỌFỌ, ỌTỌN, AND BAG.


Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Yam barn



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Wooden door





Location: Ihale (Ihiala?) | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Entrance of a building



Location: Ihale (Ihiala?) | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Market



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Ala



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker


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

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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

Ichi markings



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

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

Mature woman



Location: Okigwe, Alaigbo | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Young man



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Girl with beads



Igbo girl wearing neck-beads


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Ichi scarification



Igbo man with ichi markings on his face. Hair plaited.


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Arrow



Location: Studio | Date: 1926 | Credit: British Museum Department of Ethnography

Elaborate masquerade



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Ala, goddess of the earth



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Man and dog infront of Mbari



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Mbari house



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Mbari



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

interior of building



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick


Dramatically lit study of Ibo masquerade costume.


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Crown Film

Standing and seated Mbari



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: February 28, 1946 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Mmanwu



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927-1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Imo River




Location: ?Unknown? | Date: February 28, 1946 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Agbogho Mmanwu



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1946 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Mbari shrine house



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1946 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Burial platform



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927—1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Mbari interior





Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927—1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

Mbari house



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1927—1943 | Credit: Edward Rowland Chadwick

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

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

Chi Shrine



INTERIOR OF CHI SHRINE


— P. Amaury Talbot

Location: Nkarahia, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: P. Amaury Talbot

Monday, September 19, 2011

Ozẹle



YOUNG MAN OF ASABA WITH OZẸLE HAIR.


— Thomas

Location: Ahaba, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Northern Types of Hairdressing



HAIRDRESSING IS A STRONG FEATURE. YOUTHS PLAIT IT TO ENHANCE THEIR ATHLETIC APPEARANCE.


Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Basden

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Burial dance at Ibwariam



Location: Ibwariam, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Thomas.

Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg, September 3, 1772



WILLIAMSBURG, September 3, 1772. COMMITTED to James City Prison, on Monday the 31st of last Month, a Negro Fellow who says he is the Property of Colonel Cary of Hampton, and that he belongs to a Quarter in Albemarle; his Name is JOE, is an Ibo Negro, about fifty Years of Age, five Feet nine or ten Inches high, with three Scars on the right Side of his Face, the middle One the largest, and has on a Crocus Shirt and Trousers, and Negro Cotton Waistcoat. JOHN CONNELLY.


— John Connelly

Location: Williamsburg, Virginia | Date: September 3, 1772 | Credit: John Connelly

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Ancestor worship



WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS NZE, ỌFỌ AND IKẸṄGA (ONI[CH]A OLONA).


— Thomas

Location: Onicha Olona, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Thomas.

Man of Awka



MAN OF AWKA, ABOUT 40 YEARS OF AGE [more like 50].


— Thomas

Location: Oka, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Thomas.

Warriors



A group of Ibo warriors in ancient battle dress


— Jeffreys

Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: M. D. W. Jeffreys

Ibo Warfare



TWO IBO WARRIORS COMBINING ANCIENT AND MODERN WAR EQUIPMENT


— Jeffreys

Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: M. D. W. Jeffreys