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Showing posts with label The Elderly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Elderly. Show all posts
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Òtù Ọdụ

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"Rich Women. Onitsha. (church members.)" G. F. Packer, 1880s. Pitt Rivers Museum. These women are likely part of the Ndị Ọdụ, ...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Omu Okpanam

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The Omu of Okpanam, whose name was not recorded, photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1912. Okpanam is an Enuani Igbo town near Asaba in De...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Ndị Otu Ọdụ

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"Rich Women. Onitsha. (church members.)" G. F. Packer, 1880s. Pitt Rivers Museum. These women are likely part of the Ndị Ọdụ o...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Onicha Titled Elder

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"A chief of Onicha [Onitsha] wearing a schako [hat] of the Royal Guard of England in which he has fixed bird feathers." Via the ...

The significance of Igbo groups in the Ibo Union, c. 1958.

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Photo: Diobu Ikwere leaders protesting the 1958 (Willink) Minorities Commission (probably protesting the decision not to create a Rivers S...

Women and Ofo in Igbo Tradition

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Photo: A titled woman wearing ivory leglets, bracelets, and locally woven cloth. Nsuka area. Photo: K.C. Murray, ca. 1940. ... Nearly all...

Unidentified people [Eze?]

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

Öka Elder

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An Igbo elder who seems to have been photographed in Öka (Awka) with "wooden head dress, set with pearl buttons" [isi ojongo?]. ...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Okpu Agha

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An Igbo elder of Öka (Awka) wearing an okpu agha , or "war hat" as noted here by Northcote Thomas, 1910-11. Northcote Thomas'...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Eze Nri Obalike

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Nri Obalike, the Eze Nri from Uruoji who was the Eze Nri from 1889–1935. Nri Obalike was Eze Nri during the height of British colonial impo...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Entrance of a building

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Location: Ihale (Ihiala?) | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Mature woman

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Location: Okigwe, Alaigbo | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Playing Okwe

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Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Basden.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mbubu President

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This old woman was president of the union of professional "cutters" at Umunede. Her union badge and razors hang at her waist. She ...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Old Man

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Location: Igbuzor, Alaigbo | Date:  Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Sunday, October 17, 2010

A Medicine Man with his Stock in Trade

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Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1922 | Credit: Basden