Antique images and videos of Alaigbo/Ala Igbo (Igboland).
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
"FESTIVAL OF IMAGES"
A "FESTIVAL OF IMAGES" IN HONOR OF EKE AT ORERI INCLUDES ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY (SOME OUT OF THE PICTURE). WORSHIPPERS OFFER KOLA NUTS OR MONEY TO THE VARIOUS DEITIES.
— Cole
Location:Oraeri, Umueri, Alaigbo | Date: 1969 | Credit: Cole
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Hippopotamus
A FANCIFUL HIPPOPOTAMUS GLORIFIED WITH ABSTRACT PATTERNS REMINISCENT OF DESIGNS PAINTED ON WOMEN'S BODIES. IN THE MBARI TO AFO AT UMUAHIAGU. ARTIST: AKAKPORO.
— Herbert M. Cole
Location:Umuahiagu | Date: 1969 | Credit: Herbert M. Cole
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Burial dance at Ibwariam
Location: Ibwariam, Alaigbo | Date: ?Unsure?, Before 1921 | Credit: Thomas.
Carved pole in ancestral shrine
This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research at Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria, from September 1959 to December 1960.
Original title reads, "Carved poles at Kpogrikpo, inside the ancestral shrine of Sergeant Okpani's compound. Never obtained much information on it, regretfully. Such a pole was very unusual at Afikpo."
Location: Kpogrikpo, Afikpo, Alaigbo | Date: September 1959-December 1960 | Credit: Simon Ottenberg
Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), Williamsburg, September 3, 1772
WILLIAMSBURG, September 3, 1772. COMMITTED to James City Prison, on Monday the 31st of last Month, a Negro Fellow who says he is the Property of Colonel Cary of Hampton, and that he belongs to a Quarter in Albemarle; his Name is JOE, is an Ibo Negro, about fifty Years of Age, five Feet nine or ten Inches high, with three Scars on the right Side of his Face, the middle One the largest, and has on a Crocus Shirt and Trousers, and Negro Cotton Waistcoat. JOHN CONNELLY.
— John Connelly
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia | Date: September 3, 1772 | Credit: John Connelly
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