Description (Labels & Markings)
Written on base in pencil: '335'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: Short wooden stave with finial in the shape of some obscure creature. No label but style resembles Bini carvings Z 20317 - 20341
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Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
The entry for this object in Thomas' 1st Catalogue reads: '3335 | Igbile'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Accession Register entry for this object does not mention N.W. Thomas. [T.Cotterill]
Event Date 29/1/2001
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 7/15/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Short, carved wooden staff with a creature at the top (possibly a pangolin). The creature has a small face and four legs and the body is squat and textured. There are two circular shapes which may be ears and a single arm with hand holding something by one of the ears. The creature stands on a circular platform at the top of the staff. There is an abstract motif carved into the bottom part of the staff.
Event Date 1/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
This appears to be part of a group of rattle staffs collected by N.W. Thomas, although it does not have a rattle section and is shorter than most of the other staffs.
Event Date 1/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Other)
These staffs (Z 20317 - Z 20342) appear to have been carved by the same hand, or in the same workshop and were collected by N.W. Thomas as a group. They are listed in Thomas' 1st catalogue (Doc.413) as entries 308-335, which are situated at the very back of the catalogue.
Event Date 1/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
'335 (Thomas number - 1st Catalogue)' has been added to the Other Nos field as it is written on the base of the staff and corresponds with N.W. Thomas' 1st Catalogue.
Event Date 1/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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

Event Date 1/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Other)
A selection of rattle staff collected by Northcote Thomas are shown together in Image 390447.
Event Date 23/11/2018
Author: Katrina Dring