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Showing posts with label Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Men. Show all posts
Monday, July 6, 2020

People

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Two women who are most likely Igbo and from the Önïcha area judging by the presence of the Obi Önïcha in related photos. Photographed by H...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ Tolls

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An Ekpe masquerader in Uzuakoli, present-day Abia State. Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s. MAA Cambridge. Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ members controlled ...

"A Famous Were-Leopard"

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"A Famous Were-Leopard". Percy Amaury Talbot. Internet Archive. The power of metamorphosis is generally termed Uworraw-Ukponn, ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Prince Chukwuma of Àbọ, William Baikie

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"Prince Tshúkuma [Chukwuma]" of Abö, illustration from an 1854 voyage by William Baikie. Internet Archive. [At Abö] we learnt t...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

'The King of the Eboes'

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People on the island of Jamaica. USC Digital Library. March 22, 1816. A European's account of a thwarted African uprising in Jamaica. ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Palm Oil

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A palm oil factory photographed by Jonathan Adagogo Green likely in either Opobo or Bonny, c. late 19th century. British Museum. The palm ...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Shrine to Agwụ̀

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Titled elder Onyeso of Agukwu Nri washing hands for a rite before a shrine to Agwụ̀, a divinity of doctors (dibị̀à). Photographed by North...
Friday, February 14, 2020

"Inokon"

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"The Inokon Society, Creek Town, Calabar." Postcard from c. 1910s-20s. Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ Collection. Inokon or Inokun may be related to...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Öka man's hair

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"Achetefu(?) young man." … "Hairdressing (Ibo) Man of Awka". Northcote Thomas, c. 1911. MAA Cambridge.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Ila Elder, Origins

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An elder in Ila (Illah) holding an abani or eben sword, present-day Delta State. Photographed by Northcote Thomas, c. 1912. MAA Cambridg...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Colonial Home, Enugwu

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Home of a member of the British colonial establishment, Enugu. Staged photo, 1930s(?). The people standing are named, from left: Adebayo, K...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Edward Wilmot Blyden

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Edward Wilmot Blyden, pictured c. 1851-1860, daguerreotype of a young Edward Wilmot Blyden by Rufus Anson. Library of Congress. Edward Wil...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Onye Ọcha

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Onye Ọcha mask, Igbo parody of a white man during the colonial era from Amobia, part of a larger play. Apart from more serious ritual masks...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

The Western-style school established in 1870s Opobo

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Photo: King Jaja of Opobo, The New York Public Library. The Western-style school established in 1870s Opobo by King Jaja and other Africa...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

A View of the Arọ̀ from Igbere

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Before the Europeans came, the Arọs […] main interest in their trade was the purchase of slaves. […] Some of them came as medicine men, […...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Ndị Ìgbò

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An unidentified group portrait taken by a Royal Niger Company employee c. 1886 - 1895. Based on other photos, these could be people from t...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Ezeani Obidigbo of Neni

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"Chief Obudugbo. Ezeana of Neni" [Ezeani Obidigbo of Ugwudunu, Neni?]. Photographed by Northcote Thomas, c. 1910-11. MAA Cambrid...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Ụ̀banị̀

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"Water play Bonny For Oko Jumbo" – Jonathan Adagogo Green (Ibani photographer). 1895-1905. British Museum. Bonny was a powerfu...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Ụ̀kwà

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"At the Akquete [Akwete] Market" by Jonathan Adagogo Green, an Ibani (Bonny) photographer, 1895-1905. British Museum. The Ndoki ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Interview of an Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ priest born in c. 1880s Umuopara

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This is likely Nwa Agụ, in Umuahia, the leopard Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ mask worn by high ranking men as the emblem of the society. The costume's che...