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 with "serrated" edges at the top. cf Ijeba Z 12687
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.
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 designs beaten on the top section comprising of triangles and diamond shapes. The sides of the top part of the pin have jagged edges, but the head of the pin is rounded.

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)
A brass hairpin. The handle of the pin is flat with serrated edges. It is decorated with diagonal and vertical lines and diamond shapes filled with crosshatching. The shaft of the pin is long and narrow, tapering to a point. The reverse of the object is undecorated.
Event Date 23/9/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins