Another rare view of a decorated wall at Ila [Illah], in the Western Igbo region, captured by British colonial anthropologist Northcote Thomas, October–November 1912.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), Cambridge.
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Traditional Onicha Olona house in Enuani-Igbo, photographed by British colonial anthropologist Northcote Thomas, circa 1912.

MAA Cambridge.
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A titled Igbo man from Issele-Asaba in the western Igbo region, present-day Delta State. Photograph by Northcote Thomas, 1905–1913.
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