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 (Labels & Markings)
Old label adds "(Ugme) Kukuruku". [R.Hand]
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 12647.1-3: '3 hair ornaments of iron'.
Event Date
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 (= Kukuruku) (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. A flat piece of metal beaten into a faint triangular shape at the head, which tapers down into a long 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)
Ugme. One of three iron hairpins, with a flat, long, triangular head. The pin is slightly curved, and tapers to a sharp point.
Event Date 23/9/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff