What Are Some Of The Igbo Tribe's MostImportant Customs?

Some of their customs and traditions include the Igbo people's visual art, music and dance forms, as well as their attire, cuisine and language dialects. Because of their various subgroups, the variety of their culture is heightened further. The women carried their babies on their backs with a strip of clothing binding the two with a knot at her chest. This technique was and still is practiced by many groups across Africa along with the Igbo who still carry their babies this way. In most cases women do not cover their chest area. Maidens usually wore a short wrapper with beads around their waist with other ornaments like beads, both men and women wore these. Males wore loin cloths that wrapped around their waist and between their legs and fastened at their backs. Men could also tie a wrapper over their loin cloth. The traditional Igbo attire is made up, for men, theirs are patterned with lions heads embroidered over the clothing, and it cold be plain. For women, an emboided puffed sleeve blouse along with 2 wrappers and a head scarf. So they are mostly covered up.