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‪A woman and baby from a captured Biafran town [Ogoja Province?] Likely the Abakaliki area, with cultural body decorations. 21 March, 1968. ΑΡ.‬

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An Igbo boy and his doll (and waist beads). “A small boy with his doll. Son of the court clerk of Eza Court. The string of beads around his waist is unusual from males and is probably worn for ‘medicinal’ or ‘magical’ reasons.” G. I. Jones, 1930s.

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A nurse and girl at Amachara Hospital, Umuahia, Nigeria, ca. 1938. Photo: USC Digital Library.

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A boy with chalk patterns on his body, Umuahia, Eastern Nigeria, ca. 1925. Shot by Emily Godfrey. USC Digital Library. In the Umuahia area, there were also carved stamps used to place patterns on the body, the body art is loosely symbolic and mostly for aesthetic purposes.

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Isiji trainees of Nkporo’s Egbela warrior society undergo initiation through a structured age-grade system over several years. Their masks, crafted from raffia and calabash, are complemented by sacred tender palm fronds, known as òmụ, which drape the junior members. Photograph by G. I. Jones, 1930s. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

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“Ogu wooden face mask,” part of the Nkporo people’s Ifogu masquerade at Elugu Nkporo in p.d. Abia State, photographed by G. I. Jones in the 1930s.

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Young male Nkporo initiates dancing masks with tall fibre extensions, Eastern Igbo area (p.d. Abia State), 1930s. Photo: G.I. Jones.

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Baikie, W. B. (1856). Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwora and Binue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda) in 1854. John Murray.

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‘Son of the late Eze Nri at Oreri, wearing Benin-style bronze pectoral mask.’ Photo: Thurstan Shaw, 1960. “[Ichi] scarification is not a tribal mark, but a sign of status, rank, or nobility. It was taboo for persons thus marked to perform any menial task, such as to carry […]”

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Baikie, W. B. (1856). Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwora and Binue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda) in 1854. John Murray.

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Crow, H. (1830). Memoirs of the late Captain Hugh Crow of Liverpool.

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