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...

Ögbü (Awgbu), p.d. Anambra State, what was described as a store house by Northcote Thomas, tower in the background, May 1911. Part of Thoma...

Masquerades from different cultural regions of the Igbo area photographed by G. I. Jones in the 1930s. Masquerades representing fierce an...

A man who may possibly be from Isuochi (as the album was labelled). Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s.

People who may be from Isuochi (as the album was labelled). Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s. The ùrì body art of women who may be from...

A man who may possibly be from Isuochi (as the album was labelled). Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s.

"Ogu wooden face mask," part of the Nkporo people's Ifogu masquerade at Elugu Nkporo in p.d. Abia State, photographed by G. I...

Young male Nkporo initiates dancing masks with tall fibre extensions, eastern Igbo area (p.d. Abia State), 1930s. Photo: G.I. Jones.

Igbo male hairstyles from the northern area and one (bottom left) from Igbuzo. The photos were taken by Northcote Thomas in 1910-11, and G....

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

North Thomas' notes on an Igbo man from Agulu: "Side fringe[?], man. 1910-11. " This style appears on a number of Igbo men an...