Description (Physical description)
Flute of camwood, mouthpiece shape of fish.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Luggage tag attached with string reads: '55 | Flute (?[erihe]); played by men + boys; of camwood; mouthpiece is shape of fish. / Bini'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas label adhered to flute reads: '503 | 55 / Flute of camwood, mouthpiece shape of fish. / Bini'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Numbered '55' in the Thomas Collection, 1st catalogue.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
1st Thomas Catalogue notes numbers 1-249 as "Bini (Benin City)". [R.Hand 31/5/2001]
Event Date
Author: maa

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 7/5/2001
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 flute carved from wood. The mouthpiece is crescent-shaped, with a diamond-shaped section below the mouthpiece. The shaft of the flute has a hole around 80mm from the base of the shaft where the cavity from the mouthpiece ends and a further hole at the end, for suspension. There is a hole drilled through the diamond-shaped section at right angles to the shaft. There are some signs of insect activity and damage to the surface, and it may have been coloured with a dark pigment.
Event Date 22/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Carved camwood flute. The mouthpiece, described in the Collector's label as in the shape of a fish, is crescent-shaped, beneath which is a diamond-shaped section perforated at right angles to the broadly triangular bi-convex shaft. Upon one side, near the midpoint of the flute shaft, is a circular hole. At the terminus there is a a further circular perforation through both sides, possibly for suspension. Surface damage.
Event Date 17/9/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt