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Prince Ben Okolo meeting the colourised photo of his grandfather Eze Nri Obalike.

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Untitled photograph — IMG_3656

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Azu anya mmụọ, the ‘eyes of the spirits,’ a wooden openwork panel that stays in the shrine area in front of an obi in the north-central Igbo area. Photographed by Northcote Thomas in Öka (Awka), 1910-11. MAA Cambridge.

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Titled elder Onyeso of Agukwu Nri with ọ̀fọ, ọtọnsi ritual staff, and goat skin bag. Photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1911. MAA Cambridge.

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In the face of militant cultures [like Benin, Igala, Abam, and the British] […] [Nri influence] simply recoiled like a snail in its shell[.]” M. Angulu Onwuejeogwu (1972). “A Short History of the Odinani Museum”. Ọdinani. p. 50. Map after Onwuejeogwu (1979).

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Agaba masquerade from Achala, in today’s Anambra State. Photo: William Fagg, c. 1946. British Museum.

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Young married woman from Achala wearing a wig, north-central Igbo area. Photo: K. C. Murray, 1939.

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Young Igbo man with dance staff in Achala, today’s Anambra State, c. 1912. Photo by British colonial government anthropologist Northcote Thomas who compiled intelligence reports on the Igbo in the Nri-Awka and western Igbo areas.

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Young men of the ogbolo age-grade, with uli and fine hairstyles, Achala, north central-Igbo area, Nigeria. Photo: K. C. Murray, 1939.

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A young Igbo man photographed by British colonial government anthropologist Northcote Thomas, noted to have been taken in Achala, in today’s Anambra State, c. 1910-11.

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This is a woman and child from Agukwu Nri taken in 1910-11 by the British colonial appointed anthropologist Northcote Thomas.

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Woman and child of Agukwu Nri, photographed by the British colonial government anthropologist Northcote Thomas during his tour of the Awka area for an intelligence report on the Igbo people, c. 1910.

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Agukwu Nri, present-day Anambra State, c. 1911. Photographed by Northcote Thomas and assistants. MAA Cambridge.

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A woman and child from Agukwu Nri taken by Northcote Thomas in 1910-11.

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A woman and child from Agukwu Nri, photographed by Northcote Thomas, 1910-11. Colorized Ukpuru 2018

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the Amina (or enwe ngenembo/ akaanweze/arikwu, ‘Sclater’s guenons’), (pictured) is a monkey endemic to southeastern Nigeria is sacred and their killing taboo in many communities near Owerri and Lagwa.

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Untitled photograph — img_3617

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Photo: Palm Nut Crackers New Calabar [Kalabari people, Rivers State, Nigeria]. Jonathan Adagogo Green, 1890s.

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Untitled photograph — IMG_3559

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Uli drawings by Igbo women on paper in the early 20th century. This was to be drawn on skin, earlier Christian missionaries discouraged their use on skin and had Igbo women draw them on paper. Pitt River Museum.

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Uli body painting of a titled Igbo man from Mgbala Agwa in the Oguta Area, Imo State, Nigeria, 1983. Photo: Liz Willis.

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Uli designs painted on a foldable drawing by Igbo women under the orders of missionaries who discouraged them from decorating their bodies with it. Calabar 1930s.

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Image of a young Igbo woman painted with ùlì. From Sylvia Leigh-Ross, African Conversation Piece, London/New York: Hutchinson, 1944.

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Igbo girl painted with uli body art. Photo: Liz Willis, 1983.

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