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Portable Household Shrine, North Ika

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A photograph showing a portable household shrine with wooden carvings on an earthen mound.
Portable household shrine from North Ika. From G.I. Jones Archive (SIU).

A monochromatic photograph depicting a portable household shrine from North Ika. The assemblage features a central anthropomorphic wooden carving with stylized facial elements, a torso, and horizontal lines suggesting arms, flanked by two weathered wooden slabs. To the right is a composite structure of two vertical wooden pieces secured by a dark circular band. These elements are positioned atop a conical mound of compacted earth, clay, or mud, which rests on a flat, rectangular wooden platform.

Community Notes

Onyeka Nwokike

Sep 08, 2026

The shrine originates from the North Ika region in present-day Delta State, categorized as the Western Igbo region. In the Ika (or Western Igbo) | Jones Archive, this object is indexed alongside other regional ritual artifacts, including uxurhe staffs, the ofo, and shrines associated with Okike and Ikenga.

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