OzikoroIgbo · Clan · Southern Igbo
Umuhu
Recorded in Abia. A register entry gathers the towns the sources list, the names borne there and the records the archive holds, instead of opening only one article.
The record
What the archive holds for Umuhu
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| State | Abia |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The group holds itself to be unrelated to any other group.
It belongs to a legend in which four communities that had lived together quarrelled and broke apart to become the Alayi, Item, Igbere and Umuhu of the present day. Village headship is found among the Umuhu, as among the Item and the Igbere.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 44-45, Table VI and notes
Towns
The 2 towns recorded inside Umuhu
- Ngor
- Umuhu
Names
Names borne in Umuhu
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Umuhu yet. This is the state of the name material rather than a statement about the names people bear.
Archive records
Photographs, oral testimony and documents connected to Umuhu appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Umuhu · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Umuhu · the migrated subject label of the same name
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