Original

Reformed spellings for Igbo Settlements
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; Ogwashi-Uku is Ogwa Nshi Ukwu... any more will be added.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Ichi markings



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Sword and sheath



Collected by Col. Guy Lee, DSO, MC, DL in 1910, who was at OGWASHI-OKU, between Onitsha & Benin & east of the Niger, on military expeditions [Ekumeku Movement]. Iron, 61 centimetres


Location: Ogwa Nshi Ukwu, Aniocha, Alaigbo | Date: 1910 (collection dqatE) | Credit:British Museum

Male hairstyle



young Igbo man with elaborate domed and plaited hair style, uli body painting on the forehead and cheeks.


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Mature woman



Location: Okigwe, Alaigbo | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Young man



Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Girl with beads



Igbo girl wearing neck-beads


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Ichi scarification



Igbo man with ichi markings on his face. Hair plaited.


Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1880-1939 | Credit: J Stöcker

Arrow



Location: Studio | Date: 1926 | Credit: British Museum Department of Ethnography
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