Ugbom (or Ogbom) is a fertility dance confined to the Ohuhu-Ngwa area. The women dance and sing around a seated figure raised aloft on a male acolyte's head (Jones 1973, p.62, where he illustrates two similar figures on p.61, figs.8 and 9). Cole and Aniakor (1984, pp.174, 175) illustrate two similar but armless figures collected by Jack S. Harris in 1939 near Umuahia, which were said to have been carved by an Ibibio. About the figures they write "The full-figure headdresses worn in Ogbom dances are among the most dynamic and finest Igbo works of art, comparable in quality to any sculpture from tropical Africa." The cult was moribund by the 1940s.