Ogba anklets were worn by Igbo women permanently as a fashion or maybe musical accessory.
To wear them, they’d stuff rags between the skin and the metal to prevent chafing, while they walk with a curious swing of the leg to avoid rubbing the plates together.

Ogba ankle bracelets made from brass formed part of a woman’s dowry for the Igbos in Nigeria. Worn in pairs and important symbols of status, woman wearing ogba were unable to take on normal domestic duties and increased her own social status and that of her husband and father.” The reason why this was fashionable then remains a mystery to us.