Ekpu Oro are ancient carved wooden images made from the 'Oko' tree representing the ancestral father of the Oron people of the Akpakip Oro kingdom. The Earliest known ancient wooden carving images of the Oron people is dated to the 2370BC. Found today in the Oron Museum and other museums around the world, Some of the finest wooden statuary attributed to Oron people were beautifully carved ekpu (ancestral figures) which were destroyed and removed from Nigeria during the Biafran war in the late 1960s.
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