Cultural Archives
Ugie Ewere Festival Song
An audio recording of a rhythmic vocal performance by a male ensemble, captured by Northcote Thomas during his anthropological surveys. The recording features a call-and-response structure with energetic, a cappella delivery and descending melodic lines. It was recorded during the …
Physical Type Portraits of Igbo-speaking Communities
A photograph of two album pages featuring eighteen monochrome and sepia-toned portrait prints of human males of various ages. These portraits, known as physical type photographs, are organized in two symmetrical 3x3 grids on a light-colored substrate. The subjects are …
Portraits of an Igbo Woman in Oweri Province
These black-and-white portraits, taken by Northcote Thomas between 1909 and 1913 as physical type photographs in his anthropological survey, depict an Igbo woman from Oweri Province (now Owerri). The frontal view highlights her direct gaze and the gap between her …