Cultural Archives
Transcription of Speech by Chief Onyeso of Agukwu Nri
A photograph depicting pages 92 and 93 from Northcote Thomas's Anthropological Report on the Ibo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria, Part III: Proverbs, Narratives, Vocabularies and Grammar. The printed pages feature a bilingual layout, pairing primary indigenous text with English translations. Page …
Museum Identification Labels for Fish Trap from Awgbu
A photograph depicting a comparative catalog table of three museum specimen identification tags associated with a fish trap collected by Northcote Thomas in Awgbu (present-day Anambra State, Nigeria). Label A is an aged brown paper tag with printed text identifying …
The Story of the Blind Man, the Cripple, the Poor Man, the Thief and the King
An audio recording of a traditional Igbo folktale titled "Akuko onye isi, onye ngwuro, ogbenye na Eze". This 1913 recording by Northcote Thomas was captured on a wax cylinder phonograph in Asaba. The recording features a male orator delivering the …
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 …
An Igbo Elder from Awka, Wearing a War Helmet and Holding a Shield
This photograph, taken by Northcote Thomas around 1913, shows an Igbo elder from Awka wearing an okpu agha, a fibre 'crash' helmet plaited from coarse fibre of Colocasia antiquorum stems for defense against weapons, and holding an ekpeke, a woven …