Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
The pre-1940s history, indigenous culture, and heritage of Ìgbò through images.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Original (correct) names/spellings for Igbo City's/Towns/Villages
* Abakaliki is Abakaleke
* Afikpo is Ehugbo
* Asaba is Ahaba
* Awgu is Ogu
* Awka is Oka
* Bonny is Ubani
* Enugu is Enugwu
* Ibusa is Igbuzor
* Igrita is Igwuruta
* Oguta is Ugwuta
* Onitsha is Onicha
* Owerri is Owerre
* Oyigbo is Obigbo
* Port Harcourt is Diobu
....plus others....
* Afikpo is Ehugbo
* Asaba is Ahaba
* Awgu is Ogu
* Awka is Oka
* Bonny is Ubani
* Enugu is Enugwu
* Ibusa is Igbuzor
* Igrita is Igwuruta
* Oguta is Ugwuta
* Onitsha is Onicha
* Owerri is Owerre
* Oyigbo is Obigbo
* Port Harcourt is Diobu
....plus others....
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Probable Igbo Woman
It is unknown whether she is definitely Igbo, but her headdress looks so. She was noted as Nigerian.
Two Igbo Boys with Dead Primate
Caption:
Young gorilla (?) killed at Asaba, So. Nigeria, West Arfica, 1906. The two boys belong to the Ibo tribe.
— R. L. Beard
Location: Ahaba, Alaigbo | Date: 1906 | Credit: R. L. Beard
A Medicine Man with his Stock in Trade
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1922 | Credit: Basden
Magnificent Headdress of Awka Woman [Igbo]
Caption:
Her scanty toilet has been completed, apparently to her entire satisfaction, and the gladiatorial headdress represents the dernier cri of in the fashion world of Awka. The crest of wood, ornamented with large pearl buttons, is tightly secured on the top of her head.
— Thomas Whitridge Northcote
Location: Oka, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Discomfort of fashion
Caption:
The vocation of this woman of Achala, Ibo country, is dancing, but the regulation anklet plates on her legs confine her dance-steps to a few measured "pas" made slowly and with caution to right and left.
— Thomas Whitridge Northcote
Location: Achala, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
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