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Replacing and renewing the Egbo protective shrine at the entrance to Ezi Ume compound, Mgbom Village. The diviner (dibia) is Ewa Enyi from Evuma Village, an elder, with his red cap. The ceremony is called ogoha oha. It is done whenever the Egbo deteriorates. Oko Chukwu and his brother, my friend and sculptor Chukwu Okoro, as the senior men of the small compound, assist as well as others. The diviner putting the otite oja material into the vine-like structure, adding animal bone materials.

[Ottenberg field research notes, September 1959-December 1960, Part II].

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