• Photograph Indexes
    • Abiriba (Igbo)
    • Abua (Igbo)
    • Alayi/Isu-Ikem (Igbo)
    • Alusi/Arunsi (Shrines)
    • Ekpeye (Ekpafia Igbo)
    • Ekpe Masquerades
    • Ekpeya (Igbo)
    • Household Artifacts
    • Ibibio
    • Igbo Music
    • Ijaw
    • Ika (or Western Igbo)
    • Ikenga (shrine figure)
    • Ikwerri (Igbo)
    • Isuikwuato (Igbo)
    • Item (Igbo)
    • Ngusu Ada (Igbo)
    • Nkporo (Igbo)
    • Nsukka and Nri-Awka (Igbo)
    • Ogoni
    • Ohafia (Igbo)
  • Jones Biography
  • Bibliography
Jones Archive
Ekpe Masquerades

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Ekpe (Egbo) Runner Umuahia.

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Ekpe (Egbo) Runner Uzuakoli. The mask is a pathological Ibibio, the costume is Cross River.

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Ekpe (Egbo) Runner Uzuakoli

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Ekpe (Egbo) Runner Umuahia

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kpe (Egbo) head Photo’d in Item. Said to have been bought in the Middle Cross River Area.

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Skin covered head Photo’d in Item. Said to have been bought in the Middle Cross River Area.

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Ekpe (Egbo) or Ikem Uzuakoli

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Two skin covered heads Uzuakoli

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Skin covered head with two opposing faces Uzuakoli

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Skin covered head Calabar/Creek Town

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Five Ekpe (Igbo) masks Ubakala

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Ekpe (Igbo) mask Ubakala

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Ekpe (Igbo) head representing an elephant (Ndokki)

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Modern Ekpe (Igbo) head piece. Modern Ibibio in style and may have been carved by them

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  • Photograph Indexes
    • Abiriba (Igbo)
    • Abua (Igbo)
    • Alayi/Isu-Ikem (Igbo)
    • Alusi/Arunsi (Shrines)
    • Ekpeye (Ekpafia Igbo)
    • Ekpe Masquerades
    • Ekpeya (Igbo)
    • Household Artifacts
    • Ibibio
    • Igbo Music
    • Ijaw
    • Ika (or Western Igbo)
    • Ikenga (shrine figure)
    • Ikwerri (Igbo)
    • Isuikwuato (Igbo)
    • Item (Igbo)
    • Ngusu Ada (Igbo)
    • Nkporo (Igbo)
    • Nsukka and Nri-Awka (Igbo)
    • Ogoni
    • Ohafia (Igbo)
  • Jones Biography
  • Bibliography
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