Symbol of Ala, the Earth Mother, among the Eda Igbo, present-day Abia or Ebonyi State. P. A. Talbot, c. 1920s. Most Igbo people in the pa...

A together, ten pyramid-like structure photographed by G. I. Jones in 1935. MAA Cambridge. In the neighbourhood of Ngwo, Nsude and Agbaja...

"The goddess of the earth," as described by P. A. Talbot, c. 1932. Musée du quai Branly. This may be Ala, the Igbo earth divinity...