Index to
photographs from the Abiriba Igbo region
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G. I. Jones Copyright to these photographs belong to the G. I. Jones estate and is managed by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge. Reproduction for publication is prohibited without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Anyone wishing to obtain rights to use any of these images in a publication or museum exhibit should direct inquiries to the Senior Assistant Curator at cumaa@hermes.cam.ac.uk |
This
archive
was
produced by John C. McCall with the cooperation of Ursula
Jones. It was created as part of a project funded by grants from The English Speaking Union and Southern Illinois University. Production facilities were generously provided by the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge. |
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Modern female figure Abiriba |
Modern male figure Abiriba |
Mask "Cross River mask" collected by P.A. Talbot, probably Abiriba. In Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford |
Canoe with figures Abiriba |
Ekpe (Igbo) head Abiriba |
Boys masquerade (Ibibio style mask), Abiriba |
Mask Abiriba |
Boy next to food bowl Abiriba |
Tripod drum Abiriba |
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Two masks Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Small boys chorus Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Otiri Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba |
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Small girls touching Otiri Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Otiri Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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A different Otiri Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Small girl's parade Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba |
Small boy with Ajonku Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba |
Clown mask Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba |
Figures in Obu Abiriba |
Figures in Obu Amogudu, Abiriba |
Figure in Obu (close-up) Amogudu, Abiriba |
Figures in Obu (close-up) Amogudu, Abiriba |
Obu house Abiriba |
Obu house Abiriba |
Chief in Obu house Abiriba |
Figures in Obu house Female with pot on head, male with cutlass and trophy head, Abiriba |
Figures in Obu house Woman with a baby. Above her a man with cutlass and trophy head, Abiriba |
Four Obu figures Abiriba |
Carved pillars in Obu house Abiriba. Jones notes: 'Figures carved on the central pillar are: below, a woman with a waterpot on her head; above, an "Egbo runner" (i.e. the agent of the Ekpe [Egbo] secret society, his identity concealed beneath a tight fitting all enveloping costume and believed by the uninitiated to be a forest daemon. The servant of the Ekpe spirit to which the society ministers.) |
Figure of woman and baby (Note the ikoro drums hanging from the ceiling of the obu), Abiriba |