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- Creators:
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Ottenberg, Simon
- Dates:
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1959-1960
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 Slide (col.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2000-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research at Afikpo village-group, southeastern Nigeria, from September 1959 to December 1960.
Original caption reads, "An ocici to take to farm. A simpler version of the more elaborate ceremonial form; the latter found widespread among the Igbo. In both cases a sauce, usually of palm oil and peppers, with perhaps other ingrediants, is placed in it and dipped into with yams or dried fish or another food. Probably made at Afikpo." [Ottenberg ...