• Photograph Indexes
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    • Ekpe Masquerades
    • Ekpeya (Igbo)
    • Household Artifacts
    • Ibibio
    • Igbo Music
    • Ijaw
    • Ika (or Western Igbo)
    • Ikenga (shrine figure)
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    • Item (Igbo)
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    • Ogoni
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  • Jones Biography
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Jones Archive
Nkporo (Igbo)

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Dancing initiation masks, Boys initiation

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Dancing initiation masks, Boys initiation

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Dancing initiation masks, Boys initiation

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Group leading masks, Boys initiation

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Initiation mask, Boys initiation

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Calabash mask, Boys initiation

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Ofogu mask, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Ogwu Mask, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Okpa masquerade, the band, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Nwanyi Oma (Beautiful Woman), Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Nwanyi Oma (Beautiful Woman), Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Ogbo (Clown) mask and masquerade band, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Two Ogwu Aba (singers), Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Ogbo (Clown) mask, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Ofogu mask, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Two Ofogu masks, Boys initiation, Etiti Ama

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Masquerade band, Boys initiation, Elugu

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Masquerade band, Boys initiation, Elugu

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Ogu Mask, Boys initiation, Elugu

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Two Nwanyi Oma [beautiful women] with an attendant, Boys initiation, Elugu

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Dancing masker, Boys initiation, Obohia

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Nwanyi Oma [beautiful woman], Boys initiation, Elugu

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Mask, Caricatures an old woman catching crayfish and putting them into a gourd container, Boys initiation, Obohia

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Mask, Boys initiation, Obohia

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Dancing masker, Boys initiation, Obohia

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Mask, Boys initiation, Obohia

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A group of masks, Boys initiation, Obohia

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Two masks, Boys initiation, Obohia

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A group of masks, Boys initiation, Obohia

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A group of masks, Boys initiation, Obohia

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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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