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Percy Amaury Talbot
Percy Amaury Talbot (1877–1945) served as a British colonial official and anthropologist in Southern Nigeria for nearly thirty years. He collected thousands of artifacts and recorded the cultures of the Niger Delta in works like The Peoples of Southern Nigeria (1926).
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Pot believed to hold the personal spirit (chi)
This decorated pot, known as Ihu Chi, from Ekpeye in 1916, is believed to hold an individual's personal spirit or chi, a central concept in Igbo cosmology often translated as guardian angel or spirit-double. In Igbo belief, chi is a …