Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1922 | Credit: Basden
Antique images and videos of Alaigbo/Ala Igbo (Igboland).
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
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
Willing Submission to Life Sentence to the Stocks [Igbo]
Caption:
Immense ankle plates are a main part of female costume in the Ibo country. Many of them are made in Birmingham and afterwards decorated with incised designs by native smiths. The women wear them permanently, stuffing rags between the skin and the metal to prevent chafing, and walking with a curious swing of the leg to avoid rubbing the plates together.
— Thomas Whitridge Northcote
Location: ?Unsure?, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1913 | Credit: Thomas
Town Deities [Alusi], Adonta, Near Ogwashi [Ukwu]
Location: Adonta, Aniocha, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Basden
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