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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

Mpuniyi Ara shrine, Nise, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 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-

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On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Uli designs on Ngene shrine enclosure wall, Nibo, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911. The mound in the foreground to the left of the composite image is described as akwali omumu, also an alusi to whom sacrifice

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

‘Body painting’, Fugar, present-day Edo State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1909

1909

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Uli painting on the walls of ‘Odelegu’, Nibo, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911.

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Uli: Different Hands, Different Times

Ndidi Dike

1992

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Ben Enwonwu Retrospective

1987

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Demas Nwoko – A Retrospective, May 4–18, 1987

1987

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

New Culture – A Review of Contemporary African Arts, November 1977

1977

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Demas Nwoko and Uche Okeke in Lagos,

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On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Demas Nwoko – Paintings and Sculptures, February 6–14, 1964

1964

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Demas Nwoko and Uche Okeke – Exhibition in France, May 9–31, 1962

1962

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Art from Africa of Our Time, December 28, 1961 – January 19, 1962

1961–1962

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Demas Nwoko and Uche Okeke at the Mbari Exhibition., July 20 – August 9, 1961

1961

On display at Tate Modern part of Nigerian Modernism

Nigerian Art, October 1–22, 1960