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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

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

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

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

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

Mask

Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1946 | Credit: William Buller Fagg

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

Igbo Terracotta Statue

Location: Studio | Date: ?Unsure? | Credit: The Barakat Gallery

Chi Shrine

INTERIOR OF CHI SHRINE

— P. Amaury Talbot

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

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

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

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

Ozẹle

YOUNG MAN OF ASABA WITH OZẸLE HAIR.

— Thomas

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

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