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

Context (Amendments / updates)
See reverse of catalogue card for pencil drawing
'1910-1 T.10.1522' has been crossed through on the catalogue card

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Brass hair ornament, undecorated on reverse
Event Date 20/6/2000
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Thomas Collection label accompanies object.
Event Date 10/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

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: Katrina Dring

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, flat. Six ‘branches’ fan out from a flat base to form the head of the pin. The end of the pin is a long thin point. The pin is heavily decorated with intricate designs using lines, dots circles and triangles. Crosshatchings form geometric shapes on the body of the pin. Each branch has two spiral ends, making 11 in total as one has broken off. The stems of the branches are decorated with dots. It is an exquisite piece.

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 hair ornament or pin. There are six 'branches' that fan out from a flat base to form the head of the pin. Each branch has two spiral ends, making 11 in total as one has broken off. The stems of the branches are decorated with linear dots. The body of the pin is long and tapers to a point. It is decorated with lines, dots, triangles and crosshatching that form geometric shapes. The reverse is undecorated.
Event Date 23/9/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins