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A foldable drawing given to Aro-Igbo women by missionaries in the 1930s showing the semi-permanent uri/uli as body art, missionaries pushed Igbo women towards using uri ideographs on objects like embroidery to deter them from using it as body art. Pitt Rivers Museum.

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