“Enugu Mask” [Mmuo Igariga], photographed by Northcote Thomas in the 1910s. Anthropological report on the Igbo-speaking people, Nigeria.
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Igbo maiden spirit masks, commonly called “àgbọghò mmuō”, photographed in Öka (Awka) by Northcote Thomas around 1911. MAA Cambridge.
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The “Maw-Afia” – The spirit of a deceased man appearing to his friends, observed in Onitsha, Asaba, and other riverside towns. All spirits (maws [mmụọ]) are believed to rise from the ground.

G. T. Basden (1921). Among the Ibos of Nigeria.
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