(Photo credits: Jonathan Adagogo Green, c. 1890s/1900s)

The daughter of one of the ancient Chiefs of Bonny Kingdom in Nigeria’s delta region, Chief William Brown in her wedding dress made from Igbo cloth from the Ndoki town of Akwete in present day Abia State.

The primary customers for cloth made by women in Akwete were the coastal states such as Bonny and Opobo.

Ndoki and Bonny, and subsequently Opobo via Bonny, have an intimate relationship spanning several hundred years from the current peopling of Bonny itself, the primogenitors of Bonny initially migrated through the Ndoki area.

Credits: Tamuno Dan Jumbo