Figure 1. This thatched-roof building is linked to the Igbo mbari house in the Uratta Igbo area of old Owerri. Photo by Edward Chadwick, ca. 1927. Source: © Trustees of the British Museum, the British Museum, Acq. No. Af, A62.15. More

Figure 2. The interior of an mbari house featuring an intricately decorated mud sculpture of Ala flanked by a kneeling boy and girl. Photograph by William Fagg near Owerri, February 28, 1946. Source: © Trustees of the British Museum, the British Museum, Acq. No. B59.3. More

Figure 3. Ala, the earth goddess, inside an mbari house. Photographed by William Fagg near Owerri, February 28, 1946. Source: © Trustees of the British Museum, the British Museum, Acq. No. B59.8. More

Figure 1. First night of class together. Students are introduced to possum-skin pelts and artists begin to arrange them into the shape of a cloak. Resident artists Maree Clarke at left (with right arm outstretched over table), Kerri Clarke at bottom center (with back to camera), and Mitch Mahoney ... More