A description of Obi Osai (Ossai), the ruler of Abö (Aboh) at its peak (c. 1820s–1844), as recorded in 1832 by Macgregor Laird and R. A. K. Oldfield, Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa by the river Niger.
#obiossai #obiaboh #aboh #riverniger #igbo #ndokwa #ukwuani

Orimili (River Niger) at Aboh. Photograph by P. A. McC, 1870s–1880s. #orimili #oshimil #aboh

View of Aboh Station, circa 1865–1880. Corrugated iron warehouses in the foreground, a mud house with a thatched roof at the back. People with produce gather, and a man in American dress sits in a building entrance.

Photographed by: P. A. McC. #abohstation #aboh #igbo

Portrait of a daughter of an Aboh chief, in Western Igbo, holding a white-painted, decorated calabash. She is bare-chested, adorned with a headband, and wearing ivory anklets.
#aboh #calabash #ivory #anklets

Photographed by P. A. McC, circa 1865–1880.