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.

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