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

Context (Related Documents)
Drawing on reverse of catalogue card.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Brass hair ornament.
Event Date 21/6/2000
Author: maa

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

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 4/2/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Brass hairpin designed in a tree shape. Four spirals are randomly arranged at the head of the pin. The spirals taper down into a thin pin, which is shaped like a kriss. The back is decorated with dot like incisions arranged in a diamond shape on the triangular surface from which the spirals emanate. One wonders why the lower right branch does not end in a spiral like the others. Perhaps this has a cultural significance.
Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. January 2013.
Event Date 4/2/2013
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Ugba. A brass hairpin designed in a tree shape with four spirals and one bent extension at the head of the pin. The spirals are centred around a roughly diamond shaped head that is decorated with diagonal incisions. The body of the pin is cylindrical in shape, though with some small bends, and tapers to a point.
Event Date 23/9/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins