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)
'1910-13 T.10.1513' has been crossed through on the catalogue card

Event Date 23/6/2000
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron hair ornament
[different hand] with a curved prong and decorated top with 2 spirals
Event Date 23/6/2000
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: 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)
Iron hairpin, similar to Z 25492, Z 12894, Z 12372, Z 12847, Z 25463, Z 12921, Z 25492 and Z 25464 in design. It is important to note that all brass pins with this design are from Okpe, whereas the iron ones are from Ijeba. Two spirals form the head of the pin. They are beaten down, with a hole in their middle. A negative triangular space is visible below the spirals. As the pin begins to taper the metal has been twisted. On the reverse side upturned triangles are introduced just before the metal starts to twist.

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