GodLight International Journal

Igbo art is well known to the readers of African Arts and the corpus of scholarship on this subject is expanding dramatically. Recent studies tend to be particularistic, focusing on forms associated with specific ritual contexts that surround the royal regalia and its ensemble. This paper examines an alternate and complementary method, analyzing the significance of the royal regalia and its motif often discussed orally and totally unexplored. I will refer to this very royal regalia and its motif broadly as “the royal regalia of Eze Aguleri: its cultural ethos”. The projection must be attached to the colours or the top of construction before it can be ritually contained and managed. The motif appears in the regalia costumes. Despite fantastic variation in form, colours and shades of meanings, these projections share a fundamental principle of Aguleri religious thought.

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