Ama-Satii Cultural Dance Group | Opobo Kingdom

[@emmanuelnwachukwu4311]

Although I am not Ibani or Ijaw, I love Eastern Ijaw Cultures particularly Bonny/Opobo

[@EBIOKPOSTUDIOS]

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[@knwaoke6193]

Is this ijaw culture: 1. Bini head gear. 2. Clown dress with kente ghana skirt. 3. Ankle beads use by Igbo dancers? 4. Not even sure if the music too?

[@Opobotv1]

It’s not a Benin head gear that’s a boat crafted in form of a cap It’s not a clown dress but called baraku it’s worn as an inner before the masquerade is dressed While the crossing belt follows On their legs are Indian bells and not beads of which it’s not used by the Igbos Also the drums are Ibani Ijaw drums Please do your research Thank you

[@knwaoke6193]

@@Opobotv1 Correction on the legs - Igbo and Africans have those bell, so it is not Indian but you may call it that. 1. Note all metal products into bonny/ubani were imported from hinterland Igbos. In history no record showed ijaw metal centres or workers such as abariba, awka, ikwerre, etc. 2. Again the manufacturing of beads used for the crown is either Igbo, Edo, bini, etc and not ijaw. Again no mention of ijaw bead manufacturers in Nigeria areas. Please look at all the pictures from the first European contact and you will see that all these materials claimed as ijaw are recent created by copying Igbo Edo bini ibibio etc cultures. My position is based on the fact ijaw did not manufacture Iron, cloth, beads, etc but imported them from neighbouring places or Europeans like the sea captain hat or the European long coat. My issue is that we should not jumble up several cultures and call it something thing else. Creating a sea captain head gear with bini beads recently and calling it ijaw culture is incorrect. Some people used European sea captain hat or Europeans hats because they had no head gear for their chiefs or were crowned by European sea captains.