Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used to communicate with the ancestors and the...
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Woman painting the face of another woman with traditional paintings during an Igbo ceremony held in the Elder's Hall.
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Aderogba Obisesa This picture taken on March 1, 2012 shows traditional chiefs wearing red fez-like hats, widely worn by males, monarchs of Igbo...
An Igbo woman wearing ankle plates, Nigeria, West Africa, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I:...
Lost wax cast vessel in the form of a shell surmounted by a leopard, Nigeria. Igbo Ukwu. 9th century AD. Igbo Ukwu, eastern Nigeria.
Among many Igbo and neighbouring cultures men would establish Ikenga, shrines to the power of their right hand, either to give thanks for their...
Elderly man sitting at the door of his house, a semi-ruined colonial building in the city of Calabar.
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Man leaves a house December 15, 1999 in the Ajegunle area of Lagos, Nigeria. Signs painted on the fronts of the houses indicate that the residents...
Man stands in front of a home December 15, 1999 in the Ajegunle area of Lagos, Nigeria. Signs painted on the fronts of the houses indicate that the...
Residents stand in front of homes December 15, 1999 in the Ajegunle area of Lagos, Nigeria. Signs painted on the fronts of the houses indicate that...
Members of the South African Igbo community gather to pray as they pay tribute to Former South African President Nelson Mandela at the memorial wall...
An ornate staff head which would have been encrusted with coloured beads strung through the loops, The bronze has been cast by the lost wax method....
An Igbo mask of the white faced type that usually represent a beautiful girl, The crest is a rare depiction of the crucified Christ flanked by two...
Ritual Chalk Spoon, Igbo people, 1920-1950, wood, hide, fiber, rope, copper, pigment, 18-1/8 x 7-1/4 x 3-1/4 in., African Art.
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Woman stands in a doorway December 15, 1999 in the Ajegunle area of Lagos, Nigeria. Signs painted on the fronts of the houses indicate that the...
British businessmen John Downing, a tractor company salesman, and William Blakeley, a marine manager, are held prisoner after being captured and...
Female shrine figure, part of a family of such figures kept in a village shrine, illustrating the continuity of social roles in the world of the...
An Igbo mask of the white faced type that usually represent a beautiful girl, The crest is a rare depiction of the crucified Christ flanked by two...
Female figure for shrine, Igbo people, 20th century, wood, pigment, iron, 50 x 12 x 11-1/2 in., African Art.
Officials of Independent National Electoral Commission prepare document ahead of the February 25 presidential election at the commission's...
Person dressed in a traditional ceremonial costume during the celebration of an Igbo ritual. According to tradition, this type of masquerade is used...
Performance featuring the masquerade Ogbam Gbada of the Igbo tribe during the second annual Nigeria Cultural Day Parade and festival on Saturday,...
Igbo Okoroshi mask, one of the messengers of the water deity Owu, who performs during the annual one month New Yam festival known as Oma, Nigeria....
White faced Igbo mask with two tiered superstructure of polychromed figures, including a horse and rider and pythons, Nigeria. Igbo. 20th c...
An Igbo woman attends compulsory registration in Lagos, Nigeria, 29th August 1967. The Federal Government has ordered the compulsory registration of...
Officers of the Nigeria police force arrest people, during the trial of leader of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu, who is...
Officers of the Nigeria police force arrest people, during the trial of leader of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu who is...
Journalist sits outside a Federal High Court after Nigeria State Secret Police prevented journalists and lawyers from covering the trial of leader of...
Woman dances while holding flags of Biafra during a protest in Whitehall, London. People held a protest demanding the Nigerian President Muhammadu...