Context (Related Documents)
Written on catalogue card: 'T.10.1593'
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)
Cross-shaped brass ring with spiral decoration.

Event Date 20/6/2000
Author: maa

Context (Physical description)
Accretions and traces of old bronze disease present. [K. Sutton]
Event Date 22/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

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 (CMS Context)
Documented by Roger Blench on 21/3/1983. Z 11871 has negative number 13/21. 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)
Simple ring, but carries elaborated decorated cross. Decorated with spirals. The spirals are arranged in a linear fashion. Both bars of the cross consist of five spirals that are aligned vertically and two spirals at the top of each of the four ends aligned horizontally. The spirals are usually produced in sets of two, but as they are an uneven number one of the four stands has a single spiral at the end, which appears to be a design flaw (as today this would be put in the middle). Spirals are reminiscent of Z 25349 and the work of the Ogboni brass casters of the Obo Ayegunle area of the nearby Kwara state in North Yoruba land.

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)
A brass ring with a cross formed of spirals, with two spirals at the top.
Event Date 17/9/2021
Author: Emily Shorter