Description (Physical description)
Flute something like figure.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Luggage tag attached with string reads: '192 / Oja'
N.B. tag has been broken in two and fixed with masking tape.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas label adhered to flute reads: '508 | 192 / Flute (oja). | Oba'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Annual Report for 1910 notes that the N.W. Thomas Collection, illustrative of the ethnology of the Yoruba, Kukuruku and Esa, collected 1909-10, was purchased with Prof Bevan's subscription to the Accessions Fund. The Annual Report for 1913 notes that the 2nd N.W. Thomas Collection, was made from among the Ijo and Ibo. The two were to be amalgamated. The Annual Report for 1915 notes a preliminary catalogue was compilled from the collectors notes.
(Bio) Professor Bevan
(Bio) N.W. Thomas, Nigerian Government Anthroplogist/Ethnologist of the colony, M.A.Trinity College

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fibre string around 'neck' of flute. [A.Nadin]
Event Date 14/8/2003
Author: Katrina Dring

Publication (Online Only)
Basu, Paul (2018) Alele, Ọja, Flute . ; . https://re-entanglements.net/alele-oja-flute/
Event Date 2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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

Event Date 22/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
A wooden, carved flute resembling a human figure and with a fibre loop. The mouthpiece is crescent-shaped and represents the legs, while the other end of the flute is shaped like a flat disc and presumably represents a head. In between the two, there is a shaft, narrower near the disc, which has a hole drilled through it at the widest point which may represent arms. There is a twisted length of fibre tied around the flute and forming a loop for suspension. Below the mouthpiece, the body is marked with several horizontal incisions. There is a piece of resin on one side of the mouthpiece.
Event Date 22/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria. [T.Cotterill]

Event Date 22/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring