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

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

Gịnị mè ndị Ọka jì à sọ ènwè? Enwe Imoka, the mona, Porto-Novo, Benin. Photo: Okouneva Olga via Wikimedia Commons. Background Okoli ...

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

Ikenga and other Igbo religious items, French Catholic Mission, perhaps from converts, many artefacts ended up in European museums and priv...

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...

Photo: Ugonachomma Igbo art piece of a man-woman couple, carved to the average person's height. British Museum. So, in summary, Igbo c...

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

[…] Equiano’s constant references to destiny, providence, and faith fit into the Igbo concept of Chi (a spiritual entity or personal god, o...

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...

Some of the ideas are theoretical like the placement of the days. Some of the structure and ideas are partly via Obiakoizu A. Iloanusi (19...

Interior of Chi shrine at Nkarahia, an Isiokpo Ikwere settlement. Photo: P. Amaury Talbot, early 1910s. An interview of an Urata man abou...

Photo: "Alusi The same shrine with its priest (seated) and it’s osu (“juju slave”), Orsu, West Isuama Igbo". G. I. Jones, 1930s....

Unidentified people photographed by Henry Crosse with the Royal Niger Company, c.1886–1895. MAA Cambridge, the two men in the forefront ma...

The origin of the Asagba (Eze Agba?) and the Eze of Asaba and environs according to research of British colonial government anthropologist N...

Photo: Bread Fruit Tree Ikorofiong, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1900-1910, Unknown photographer. Trees are important in Igbo spirituality as sym...

Photo: Shrine with human skull at Obieni, in today's Cross River State, probably the revered head-pieces of deceased family heads, from...

Photo by Northcote Thomas in Öka (Awka), 1910-11. MAA Cambridge. Azụ anya mmụọ, the 'eyes of the spirits,' a wooden openwork panel...

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

[An Igbo] spirit worker painting the walls of an mbari nearing completion. Note the double Mami Wata images at left. Photo 1930s, [Near Owe...