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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Yọ́k Òbòlò of Andoni
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Objects of the shrine of Yọ́k Òbòlò of the Andoni, Agwut Obolo, present-day Rivers State. By A. A. Whitehouse who led a raid on the shrine,...
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Öka Smiths among the Western Igbo and Others
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In Onicha Olona, a western Igbo town, two individuals in the courtyard of a house with what seems to be blacksmithing tools (tongs and hamm...
Öka Travelling Blacksmiths
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Son of the late Eze Nri at Oreri, wearing Benin-style bronze pectoral mask. Photo: Thurstan Shaw, 1960. Awka smiths working on the easter...
Friday, November 23, 2018
19th Century Igbo Blacksmiths
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Blacksmiths "from the Onitsha area" according to G. I. Jones, photographed by William Henry Crosse, part of the Royal Niger Compa...
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