OzikoroA Young Bride and the Marriage Tradition of Awka (Ọka)
This photograph, taken by Swedish ethnographer Gustaf Bolinder during his travels in Igboland between 1930 and 1931, captures a recently married young woman standing in front of a dilapidated building in Awka, northern Igboland. Next to her is a carved figure, which Bolinder describes in Swedish as a symbolic marker placed outside a father’s house…