G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture

Igbo Musicians

Band playing for Mmau Masquerade, Amuda village, Isu Ochi Instruments: udu (pot drum), two small membrane drums, on small ogene (iron bell) and a whistle	Xylophone with two players three small drums and two basket shakers, Amuda Village, Isu Ochi	Band playing in Northern Igboland
Band playing in Northern Igboland	Band playing in Northern Igboland

Some Ikoro (slit drums)

Male carving at one end of
large ikoro drum, Ohafia

Female carving at other end
of large ikoro drum, Ohafia

Small ikoro drum, Ohafia

Ufie drum, Southern Ikwerri

Alusi or Arunsi (shrines)

Alusi priest in his shrine	Alusi Nri-Awka	Alusi	Ibudu Orlu
Juju to protect crops Orlu	Alusi Tutelary and fertility juju, Ishieke, Isu	Alusi Tutelary and fertility juju -- detail, Ishieke, Isu	Alusi Tutelary and fertility juju -- detail, Ishieke, Isu
Ibudu Mud shrine made to protect and prosper a household	Pyramids Nsude village shrine, Abaja, Northern Igbo	Jones posing in front of a pyramid Nsude village shrine, Abaja, Northern Igbo	Alusi With Ikenga and other ritual objects, Orsu, West Isuama Igbo
Alusi The same shrine with its priest (seated) and it's osu ("juju slave"), Orsu, West Isuama Igbo	Alusi With its priest and its ritual iron belled staff, Orsu, West Isuama Igbo	Alusi Orsu, West Isuama Igbo	Alusi Orsu, West Isuama Igbo
Alusi Nri-Awka Igbo	One of a group of Alusi figures Nri-Awka Igbo	Alusi Several of the same group of Alusi figures	Alusi Another shot of the above shrine, Obioma town, Abaja, Northern Igbo
Alusi Figure in another shrine of a tutelary deity of one of the adjacent villages erected on the road from Udi to Ngwo on the escarpment above Enugu township, Obioma town, Abaja, Northern Igbo		Alusi Shrine of a tutelary deity of one of the adjacent villages erected on the road from Udi to Ngwo on the escarpment above Enugu township, Obioma town, Abaja, Northern Igbo

Ikenga

Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo	Ikenga Amobia, Nri-Awka Igbo (Now in Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1938 15 43)	Ikenga Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1938 15 43)	Three Ikenga Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo
Ikenga Achalla, Nri-Awka Igbo	Another view of the same Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo	Ikenga Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1938 15 43)	Two Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo
Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo	Wood carver Carving Ikenga	Okike, Ikenga and other shrines North Ika	Ofo, uxurhe and other pieces [includes Ikenga], North Ika
Portable household shrine "I was not long enough in the area to find out the names and function of the two figures. One looks like an ancestral figure and one an Ikenga." North Ika

Agwu Nsi Figures

Agwu Nsi figures (Dibia) Nri-Awka Igbo

Agwu Nsi figure (Dibia) Nri-Awka Igbo

Ceremonial bowls (okwa)

Okwa Nzu (chalk bowls)

Jones notes: 'If you wish to show that a stranger visiting your village is your guest and under your protection, you present him with a piece of chalk (local gypsum) which he takes and draws two white lines on his wrist and then returns. Big men have a special bowl (okwa) for this chalk (nzu).'

Okwa Nzu Abiriba
Held by the owner's wife
(note body painting).

Okwa Nzu Abiriba Igbo

Okwa Nzu Item Igbo

Ceremonial food bowls

Jones notes: 'In addition to kola, a visitor should be offered food. This is reduced to a token meal in which the visitor is presented with a small piece of preserved meat (usually a piece of boiled hide). on this type of dish. He is expected to cut off a small piece of this on the cutting block, to add a protion of the sauce from the central hollow to it by dipping it in or by using an iron spoon and then to eat it.'

Okwa Ezza Igbo -- note small iron spoon

Okwa Ezza Igbo

Okwa The figure in the entre forms the lid of a circular hollow which should hold the sauce into which the piece of meat is dipped.

Okwa Unknown provenence

Other Igbo cultural items

Wari board (game)	Calabash containers with basketry coverings	House in Owerri Figure of a motor transport magnate and symbols of his (horse) power	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.
House under construction Roof is made from raffia palm branches (locally known as bamboo poles) prior to the attachment to them of tile like mats made out of raffia palm leaves (southern Igbo)	House under construction (southern Igbo)	House with inset plates South Ikwerri	Interior of house with plates inset in walls South Ikwerri
House with carved panels Nri-Awka	Train juju Interior of the house of the train juju (alusi) showing the engine. Made by the people of Nike in honor of the railway that runs through their land. (Enugu)	Train juju Nike, Enugu	Train juju, detail Hausa man on a horse, local man in front. Nike, Enugu
Woman with baby (The baby is covered with chalk for medicinal purposes.)	"Awka" stool Showing decoration of the pedestal, Amobia village, Nri-Awka	Carving a stool Early stages of carving a stool similiar to the one shown above, Amobia village, Nri-Awka	Carving a stool Later stages of the same carving process, Amobia village, Nri-Awka
Another type of stool Amobia village, Nri-Awka	Wood carver Making a lidded bowl	Bottles carved out of wood In the shape of local clay pots. They are hollow and will hold liquids. The technique is to cut a piece out of the side to enable one to hollow the interior and then replace it.	Child with modern carvings A woman, leopard and policeman Nri-Awka

Index to photographs from of Igbo music, alusi/arunsi (shrines), shrine objects, architecture and other cultural artifacts
All photographs by 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.