Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased using money from Prof. A.A. Bevan’s subscription to the Museum’s Accessions Fund.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Brass hair pin ornament with a pattern on one side of the top, infilled with cross-hatching.
Event Date 12/6/2000
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: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Northcote W. Thomas in Edo State, Ijeba (now Uzebba) town. The inhabitants belong to the Edo ethnic group, and also identify themselves further as Yekhee people. The language they speak is also referred to as Yekhee. See Blench, R. M., 1995. The Work of N.W. Thomas as Government Anthropologist in Nigeria. The Nigerian Field, 60, pp.29.

Event Date 4/2/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Brass hairpin with the point broken off. Profusely decorated on the head segment with crosshatchings between which plain triangular shapes are visible. It tapers into a thin point.

Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. January 2013.

Event Date 4/2/2013
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Brass hairpin, with a flat, rectangular head that tapers in towards the pin. The head is decorated with a geometric, triangular design, with some sections left plain and others infilled with crosshatching. The pin is flat, and the point has broken off.
Event Date 23/9/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff