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)
Iron hair ornament
[different hand] with a piece of twisted iron two-thirds of the way up, +2 spirals on the top.
Event Date 19/6/2000
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)
Iron hairpin with twisted metal bands on the top of the head, which extend into two spiral shapes which have been beaten flat. Each spiral has a hole in its middle. The pin tapers down to a point where the metal is twisted again and ends in a small rectangle. From there it tapers down into a narrow 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