Description (Labels & Markings)
Written on object in black ink: 'T.10.1621'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased using money from Prof. A.A. Bevan’s subscription to the Museum’s Accessions Fund.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Ring of white metal. Heavy, twisted, but with flattened and fused ends.
Event Date 12/6/2000
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria. [T.Cotterill]
Event Date 7/5/2001
Author: maa

Context (References)
Collected by Northcote W. Thomas in Edo State, Agbede town. The inhabitants belong to the Edo ethnic group, and also identify themselves further as Aviele people. The language they speak is referred to as Etsako. See Blench, R. M., 1995. The Work of N.W. Thomas as Government Anthropologist in Nigeria. The Nigerian Field, 60, pp.29.


Event Date 10/12/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (Related Documents)
Documented by Roger Blench on 18/3/1983. Z 11770 has negative number 13/28. Vernacular name of object Akbebununakuo obo. Information taken from Roger Blench’s paper copy of the Northcote W. Thomas database created in the 1990s. Archival reference: AA6/4/18.
Event Date 11/12/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
?Brass ring, but silver appearance (perhaps lead). Twisted metal, like the bracelets seen previously like Z 12002. Similar to Z 13499 and Z 25351. Similar flat ends where the two ends meet at a slit. Lines running across the twisted parts. Drawing like designs on the flat parts: circles, triangles and other decorative lines. Obvious signs of use and wear; shiny surface.

Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. November 2012.
Event Date 4/12/2012
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Akbebununakuo obo. A ring of white metal, lead and possibly tin, twisted with flattened and fused ends. The twists are decorated with lines, and the ends decorated with geometric designs.
Event Date 17/9/2021
Author: Emily Shorter