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Boy next to food bowl Abiriba
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Tripod drum Abiriba
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Ekpe (Igbo) head Abiriba
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Boys masquerade (Ibibio style mask), Abiriba
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Mask Abiriba
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Mask “Cross River mask” collected by P.A. Talbot, probably Abiriba. In Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
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Canoe with figures Abiriba
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Modern male figure Abiriba
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Older woman touching Otiri Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
NGBAGBA IKORO FESTIVAL
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Clown mask Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Small girl’s parade Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Small boy with Ajonku 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 girls touching Otiri Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
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Older woman touching Otiri 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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Two masks Ngbagba Ikoro, Abiriba
NGBAGBA IKORO FESTIVAL
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Figure of woman and baby (Note the ikoro drums hanging from the ceiling of the obu), Abiriba
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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.)
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Four Obu figures Abiriba
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Figures in Obu house Female with pot on head, male with cutlass and trophy head, Abiriba
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Figures in Obu house. Female with pot on head, male with cutlass and trophy head, Abiriba
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Obu house Abiriba
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Obu house Abiriba
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Chief in Obu house Abiriba
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Figure in Obu (close-up) Amogudu, Abiriba
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Figures in Obu (close-up) Amogudu, Abiriba
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Figures in Obu Amogudu, Abiriba
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Figures in Obu Abiriba