In the cultural framework of the Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria, a greeting is far more than a casual exchange of pleasantries; it is a "social contract" and a profound…
OPI OKIKE-METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
OKIKE
is a curved ivory colored music instrument made from elephant tusks or large horn of an Elephant. With an opening by the side and an…
In Igbo traditional society, death especially of a titled man marks not only the end of a physical life but the beginning of a transition into the ancestral realm. Funerary…
An Igbo man photographed by British government anthropologist Northcote Thomas in the 1910s, the markings on his face are known as ichi which is worn by men and young boys…
