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

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,...

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...

An ọ̀gwa , an ancestral meeting and reception shrine hall of household patriarchs photographed by P. Talbot around or before the mid-1920s...

Alụsị with its priest and its ritual iron belled staff, Ösü (Orsu), West Isuama Igbo. Photo by G. I. Jones, 1930s. MAA Cambridge. The atti...

Igbo shrine house photographed by Gustaf Bolinder, 1930-31. Ogu is divine retributive justice in the Igbo world view. In many communities ...

"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...

“I[g]bo MBARI house. 28/2/46. at EBELE, OWERRI [now in Imo State, Nigeria]. Figures of telephone operators” — William Fagg. Location: ...

WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS NZE, ỌFỌ AND IKẸṄGA (ONI[CH]A OLONA). — Thomas Location: Onicha Olona, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: ...