Description (Physical description)
Hair ornament used by king's wives and daughters and by rich people; a long piece of brass inset with coral, with pin at right angles from centre
[different hand] There are two of these ornaments.


Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Z 12074, [67], noted in black ink on an old brown paper label, ?in Thomas' hand, '67/ Head ornament (kotine) used by king's wives & daughters; and by rich people. Worn on top of head/ Bini'.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
The numbers '1543' and '1544' have been written on the left side of the Thomas Collection labels.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Loan (Exhibition)
See also initial enquiry- filed as Loan. no. 30 in this database, with Barbara Plankensteiner as the borrower- same exhibition
Touring exhibition entitled \'Benin. Höfische Kunst aus Westafrika\' (Benin. Royal art from West Africa)
Initial email enquiry, 19/12/2005 says:
> 'The exhibition is a co-operation project between the Ethnological Museum in Vienna, Austria, the Federal Exhibition Hall in Bonn, the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, both in Germany, and the Art Institute Chicago. The exhibition will be opened in Vienna in May 2007, will then be shown in Bonn from September to December 2007, in Berlin from January 2008 to April 2008 and in Chicago from May to August 2008. This large exhibition on Benin culture and art will for the first time re-unite masterworks from all the important historic collections in Europe, the US and Nigeria. We have already been granted loans from several important museum collections.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Loan (Exhibition)
See also Loan. No. 34 on this database , where Vienna, Berlin, Bonn, Chicago are noted as the borrowers- same exhibition
Initial email enquiry, 19/12/2005 says:
> 'The exhibition is a cooperation project between the Ethnological Museum in Vienna, Austria, the Federal Exhibition Hall in Bonn, the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, both in Germany, and the Art Institute Chicago. The exhibition will be opened in Vienna in May 2007, will then be shown in Bonn from September to December 2007, in Berlin from January 2008 to April 2008 and in Chicago from May to August 2008. This large exhibition on Benin culture and art will for the first time re-unite masterworks from all the important historic collections in Europe, the US and Nigeria. We have already been granted loans from several important museum collections.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Small sections of coral are missing. Object labelled 67A has end of pin broken off and missing. [R.Hand]
Event Date 15/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
1st Thomas Catalogue notes numbers 1-249 as "Bini (Benin City)". [R.Hand]


Event Date 31/5/2001
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

Context (Amendments / updates)
Numbered '67' and '67 A' in the Thomas Collection, 1st Catalogue.
Event Date 14/12/2016
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Benin: Court Arts of West Africa Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 8/5/2007- 3/9/2007; Musee du quai Branly, Paris [instead of Bonn] 7/10/2007- 6/1/2008; Berlin 7/2/2008- 25/5/2008; Chicago 27/6/2008- 21/9/2008

Event Date 8/3/2016
Author: Rachel Hand

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3725 | Remedial
Event Date 7/2/2017
Author: Kirstie Williams

Context (Analysis)
Analysed using XRF instrumentation by Dr Agnese Benzonelli, University of Cambridge, as part of research by Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Dr Agnese Benzonelli into Benin material at MAA
Event Date 3/4/2023
Author: rachel hand