Igbo money



http://www.earthmetropolis.com/Earth/igbo.html

Market day sculpture

Mbari House Sculpture

IGBO AGBOGHO MMUO CULTURE (Nigeria)

[img]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKRj8IkJA_apCBqcRNBfyB00p2qIF3Jv4lJllkTjXzNrNrEWSF[/img]

Great additions

Was Ngwa/Asa/Ndoki area inaccessible to these people or something?

Nice thread

really very impressive !!!.

Nice

Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga1.JPG[/img]

Ikenga Amobia, Nri-Awka Igbo (Now in Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1938 15 43)

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga2.JPG[/img]



Ikenga Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1938 15 43)

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga3.JPG[/img]

Three Ikenga Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga4.JPG[/img]


Ikenga Achalla, Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga5.JPG[/img]


Ikenga Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1938 15 43)

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga7.JPG[/img]

Two Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga8.JPG[/img]

Ikenga Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikenga9.JPG[/img]



Okike, Ikenga and other
shrines North Ika

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ika15.JPG[/img]




Ofo, uxurhe and other pieces [includes Ikenga], North Ika



[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ika1.JPG[/img]



[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ika16.JPG[/img]

Agwu Nsi figures (Dibia) Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/agwu1.JPG[/img]



Agwu Nsi figures (Dibia) Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/agwu2.JPG[/img]




Agwu Nsi figure (Dibia) Nri-Awka Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/agwu3.JPG[/img]

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

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/nzu1.JPG[/img]



Okwa Nzu Abiriba Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/nzu2.JPG[/img]

Okwa Nzu Item Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/nzu4.JPG[/img]

Okwa Ezza Igbo -- note small iron spoon


[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/okwa1.JPG[/img]

Okwa Ezza Igbo

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/okwa2.JPG[/img]

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.

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/okwa3.JPG[/img]




Okwa Unknown provenence

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/okwa4.JPG[/img]





Calabash containers with basketry coverings

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc2.JPG[/img]




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)

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc10.JPG[/img]




[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc11.JPG[/img]


"Awka" stool Showing decoration of the pedestal, Amobia village, Nri-Awka



[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc14.JPG[/img]

Amobia village, Nri-Awka


[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc17.JPG[/img]


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.


[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc20.JPG[/img]

[size=14pt] Architecture [/size]

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)


[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc5.JPG[/img]


House under construction (southern Igbo)

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc6.JPG[/img]



House with inset plates South Ikwerri


[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc7.JPG[/img]



Interior of house with plates inset in walls South Ikwerri


[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc8.JPG[/img]


House in Owerri Figure of a motor transport magnate and symbols of his (horse) power

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc3.JPG[/img]



House with carved panels Nri-Awka



[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/misc9.JPG[/img]

Hebrew inscription on the stone throne of Gad in Enugwu Aguleri, Anambra Nigeria - The present  paramount ruler is HRH Eze Chekwuemeka-Eri.

Eri is the direct descendant of Biblical Gad The progenitor of the Igbo race.

Genesis 46:16: And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

For more information see link below:

www.igbofriendsofisrael.com

Okwa Nzu  

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/nzu4.JPG[/img]

Alj Harem, are these divination trays like the Opon Ifa of the Yorubas?

They look very similar.

i think some of them are quite modern and perhaps influenced by contact with europeans i prefer the older ones which seem more authentic

Rossikk:

Okwa Nzu  

Alj Harem, are these divination trays like the Opon Ifa of the Yorubas?

They look very similar.

I was wondering as well,

They look strikingly similar. Hmmm but no sure of the connection

aribisala0:

i think some of them are quite modern and perhaps influenced by contact with europeans i prefer the older ones which seem more authentic

True. very true

igbo drums

used both as a musical instrument and as a work of sculpture significant in many ceremonial functions, including dance, rituals, story-telling and communication of messages.

Slit drums, with hollow chambers and long narrow openings that resonate when struck, often take a human or animal form in which the drum becomes the body. The Igbo use both the vertical and the larger horizontal type. We are also showing a tall, skinheaded drum with wonderful relief carving.

More drums from Igbo culture

Igbo animal figures

IGBO KOLA NUT OFFERING BOWLS

Kolanut bowls in Igboland