G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture

Index to photographs from the Ika Igbo or "Western" Igbo region
All photographs by G. I. Jones Copyright to these photographs belong to the G. I. Jones estate and is managed by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge. Reproduction for publication is prohibited without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Anyone wishing to obtain rights to use any of these images in a publication or museum exhibit should direct inquiries to the Senior Assistant Curator at cumaa@hermes.cam.ac.uk	This archive was produced by John C. McCall with the cooperation of Ursula Jones. It was created as part of a project funded by grants from The English Speaking Union and Southern Illinois University. Production facilities were generously provided by the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge.

Ika (Western) Igbo

Ofo, uxurhe and other pieces [includes Ikenga], North Ika	Carved wooden shrine object North Ika, Asaba village (Pitt Rivers Museum 1880)	Carved wooden shrine object South Ika, Aboh town	Carved wooden figure North Ika, stray Yoruba influence
Ogonya Play Characters in a masquerade resting before dancing with a drum orchestra, Ogume Village, South Ika bordering Isoko Edo	Figure of chief North Ika	Mud figures of Chief and Attendants and Commissioner of Police. North Ika	Decorated pot North Ika
Decorated pots North Ika	Feathered Headdress Ogonya Play, Ogume village, South Ika	Ogene Mask Ogonya Play, Ogume village, South Ika	Ejukpe mask (nearest the camera) and other masks Ogonya Play, Ogume village, South Ika
Nwamno figure Ogume village, South Ika	Nwamno figure "Dance trophy. I gather that it was stood or held in the centre of a meeting place and people (men & women) danced in a circle aound it." Ogume village, South Ika	Okike, Ikenga and other shrines North Ika	Portable household shrine "I was not long enough in the area to find out the names and function of the two figures. One looks like an ancestral figure and one an Ikenga." North Ika
Figure in an ancestral shrine North Ika	Uxurhe Staffs The ancestral staffs are an Edo or Bini institution (vide Bradbury "The Benin Kingdom" Ethnographic Survey, Western African, Part XIII, Page 54) I photographed them in an Ika Igbo division -- namely Asaba. But they were said to come from Ishan Edo.	Drums and figures North Ika