Description (Labels & Markings)
Luggage tag attached with string reads: '561 / Ikenga / NIBO, IBO.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Conventionalised figure without pipe. [Added in different handwriting]: This is a small squat black wooden figure with carved legs and horns. Ikenga statues are house-protective and protectors of new enterprise.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Old label accompanies object and gives the number "561". This matches the description in the Thomas Collection, 2nd Catalogue: "Kept in obu give fowl and goat to it to keep alive also to get money." [R.Hand]

Event Date 27/4/2001
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: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Small wooden carved figure with two horns. The entire face area has been carved into a textured surface, but the features are indistinct. The two horns rise either side of the head and are large compared to the rest of the body. The figure stands on two short legs, with a ridged disc above. The surface of the object is coated in a dark substance, possibly pigment. There is a chip missing from one of the legs, and a large crack through the front of the body and face. Signs of insect damage to the base of the body.
Event Date 14/11/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Record updated as part of the Museum Affordances project 2018-2020

Event Date 14/11/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Ikenga. Small wooden carved figure with two large curved horns. Face has been carved into a textured surface; features are indistinct. The figure stands on two short legs, with a ridged disc above.
Event Date 20/9/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal