Ikenga

An important figure in culture Igbo are the “Alusi” or geniuses of nature, responsible for disease and death, and charged with punishing perjury. They are consecrated altars, family and in the villages, so that they may be favorable to men. These altars are adorned with wooden statues called “Ikenga”, which are Alusi with horns, protective guardians of families and their homes. Only parents can own Ikengas. The Ikenga altar is a personal altar, belongs to one man. The Ikengas are kept in the house of the lineage, which is the central place of the family lineage. Personal success is attributed to Ikenga and affects the whole family. The Ikenga are sons of the Alosi and therefore share supernatural powers. At the death of the family age, their Ikenga must be destroyed. A cult is offered to the Ikenga to extol the power and vital force in man's right hand.

It is a reproduction in ceramics of one of the great iKengas The headdress represents a buffalo head, its clothing is large leaves and on the back it has different objects and products offered by nature.