Context (Related Documents)
Numbered '170' in the Thomas Collection, 1st Catalogue.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 12179 [.1-2]: 'Snake medicine, eaten after snake bite or before going into the bush (large shell) (olumu gbenpia). [different hand] The "snake medicine" seems to have been kept in the shell. [additional different hand] It is contained in a separate bottle which fits into the shell'

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
170 is written on a label affixed to the object.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Related Documents)
1st Thomas Catalogue notes numbers 1-249 as "Bini (Benin City)".
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
The number '2007' has been written on the left side of the Thomas Collection label.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Rachel Hand, description for Z 12179 [.1-2]: 'Shell is coated with black substance, ?mud, with loop of plant fibre threaded through hole in side of shell. Bottle contains solidified black substance'
Event Date 30/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Olumu gbepia. Medicine in the form of a large shell, with an unknown dark substance inside and coating the exterior. There is also a fibre loop threaded through the side of the shell. Recorded by the Collector as medicine to eat after snake bite.
Event Date 10/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The shell and bottle shared the record accession number: Z 12179. They also share the Thomas number: 170 and are thus understood as being associated objects. It was decided that the record should be split, with both objects being assigned different suffixes: Z 12179.1 and Z 12179.2.
Event Date 10/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt