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Mask “Cross River mask” collected by P.A. Talbot, probably Abiriba. In Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
NGBAGBA IKORO FESTIVAL
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.)