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1948

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Man hanging from a tree

Jimo Akolo

1963

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Fulani Horsemen

Jimo Akolo

1962

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Head of a Nupe Woman from Nigeria

Justus D Akeredolu

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Dancing Girls

1947

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Fulani Girl

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Nigerian Dancers

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The Dancer

1962

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Woman Weaving

1947

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Drawings of uli motifs, with Northcote Thomas’s annotations. Few of Thomas’s fieldnotes survive from his anthropological surveys. There is, however, a collection of these drawings on sheets of notepaper, evidently made by different people during his 1910-

1910–1911

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Drawings of uli motifs, with Northcote Thomas’s annotations. Few of Thomas’s fieldnotes survive from his anthropological surveys. There is, however, a collection of these drawings on sheets of notepaper, evidently made by different people during his 1910-

1910–1911

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Drawings of uli motifs, with Northcote Thomas’s annotations. Few of Thomas’s fieldnotes survive from his anthropological surveys. There is, however, a collection of these drawings on sheets of notepaper, evidently made by different people during his 1910-

1910–1911

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Exterior and interior views of the decorated walls of the Iyiazi shrine in the Afo market, Amaeze, Agbadana, Agukwu Nri, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Exterior and interior views of the decorated walls of the Iyiazi shrine in the Afo market, Amaeze, Agbadana, Agukwu Nri, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Exterior and interior views of the decorated walls of the Iyiazi shrine in the Afo market, Amaeze, Agbadana, Agukwu Nri, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Exterior and interior views of the decorated walls of the Iyiazi shrine in the Afo market, Amaeze, Agbadana, Agukwu Nri, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Uli painting on the walls of the Ogwugwu shrine, Nibo, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by one of Northcote Thomas’s assistants in 1911

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

‘Decorated house’, Amansea, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

‘Decorated house’, Amansea, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.