From Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju:
More hereThe Ekpe esoteric order of South-Eastern Nigeria is famous for their Nsibidi semiotics, depicted in terms of inscriptional and performative forms.
Ekpe Esoteric Order Procession in Arochukwu, South-Eastern Nigeria
The inscriptions are done on cloth and the human body.
The image above shows Nsibidi inscriptions on bodies of the members of the order and black and white Nsibidi designs on their wrappers .
The esoteric order members are in solemn procession, the structure of the procession, perhaps, and certainly the inscriptions on their bodies and clothes, bearing far reaching meaning at various levels of depth,the full range of meaning known only to the best informed among the members.
Image courtesy of Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju