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Idoma Information
Location:Central Nigeria
Population:250,000
Language:Idoma (Idoma Cluster of Kwa)
Neighboring Peoples:Ibibio, Igbo, Mama, Mumuye
Types of Art:Idoma art in Western collections primarily consists of wooden masks which are used at funerals and for social control and of anthropomorphic wooden figures that may often be quite large.
History:Linguistic evidence suggests that the Idoma have lived in their present day region for at least four to five thousand years, and ...
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