Ishiagu Pottery Products. Gloria Chuku – Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960. #Ishiag #Pottery #Igbowomen

Now the Italians 🥰

Igbo women, likely from Uwana in the Afikpo region, paddling canoes along the Cross River at Ndibe Beach. Photographed by Simon Ottenberg in the early 1950s. #uwana #crossriver #igbowomen #afikpo #ndibebeach

Strip-woven cotton cloth from the Igbo women’s textile industry in Akwete, Ndoki-Igbo area, mid-20th century. Dimensions: 68 5/8 x 59 in. Yale University Art Gallery. #akwete #cotton#clothing #igbowomen #ndoki #igbo

Omu of Ubulu-Ukwu, Princess Uwandi Catherine Iweanya who reigned from 1964-1986. Photo retrieved from The Story of Ubulu Kingdom—A Historical Documentary of the People of Ubulu by Esther Nwogwonuwe.

#ubulu #ubulukwu #anioma #omu #Igbo #igbowomen

Official British Record of Casualties from the Women’s War (1929-30)
A documented account detailing the individuals, primarily women, who were killed or injured during the Women’s War in the Calabar and Owerri colonial provinces.
#womenswar #abawomenswar #abawomensriot #calabar #owerri #igbowomen

Women at a new orange juice factory, Umuahia. Crown copyright 1951. #umuahia #igbowomen #juicefactory

Mothers and their babies at a “Welfare Morning” organized by the Methodist Missionary Society in Umuahia, circa 1935. USC Digital Library.
#mothers #umuahia #igbowomen #nursingmothers

Women on a bustling street in Aba, Eastern Region, Nigeria, 1951. Captured by Black American photographer Lorenzo Dow Turner. #aba #easternnigeria #igbowomen

Two women in Akwete cloth attire, circa 1960s, wearing two overlapping cloths.

Credit: Vintage Nigeria. #igbowomen #akwete #cloths

A photograph of three Igbo women from the early 20th century, featured in G.T. Basden’s book Among the Ibos of Nigeria (1921). #Igbowomen #Igboarchives