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Ọkwa Ọji the wooden kolanut bowl

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English: Ọkwa Ọji (The Kolanut bowl) is use to offer kolanut to visitors, ancestors, deities and personal gods in Igbo (Eastern Nigeria)Tradition. Ọkwa Ọji is used at home or during ceremony.

Offering kolanut is very important aspect of Igbo culture and a sign of hospitality. In olden days, kolanut bowls are wooden but nowadays ceramic saucers or plastic trays are being used to replace it.

Kolanut bowls comes in various sizes and shapes.

Contents of Ọkwa Ọji include kolanut,traditional white chalk (nzu)and sometimes alligator pepper and garden egg. In the image above, we have two colanuts and a white traditional chalk.

Igbo: Ọkwa Ọji bụ ọkwa eji osisi tua nke eji eche ọji na ala Igbo.

E ji ọkwa ọji eche ọjị n'ụlọ, ebe ana eme mmemme, igo alusi na ihe ndị ọzọ.

Mgbe gboo, ọkwa ọji na abụ karị osisi atụrụ atụ ma ugbua eji efere eme ọkwa ọji.
Ihe na adị karị na ọkwa ọji bụ ọjị, nzu, añara na ose ọjị.

Esereese ọkwa ọji a na egosi ọjị abụọ na nzu.

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