Context (CMS Context)
'See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria'. T.Cotterill,7/5/2001.
Event Date 14/7/2000
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Brass ring with ornament
[different hand] (ulekurari)
Event Date 14/7/2000
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Collected by Northcote W. Thomas in Edo State, Okpe town. The inhabitants belong to the Edo ethnic group, and also identify themselves further as Okpe people. The language they speak is also referred to as Okpe. See Blench, R. M., 1995. The Work of N.W. Thomas as Government Anthropologist in Nigeria. The Nigerian Field, 60, pp.29.
Purchased using money from Prof. A.A. Bevan’s subscription to the Museum’s Accessions Fund.

Event Date 10/12/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Brass ring. Topping the ring is a container-like representation of a pot for medicine from Ado in Yoruba land in a calabash shape. Floral decoration on the central ring of the calabash. The container is of solid brass, but depicted with a base, neck and a lid. Obvious signs of use and wear. Similar to Z 25349. Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. November 2012.
Event Date 4/12/2012
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Ulekurari. A brass ring with an ornament on the top of a calabash shape, with a plaited pattern around the middle, representing a pot for medicine.
Event Date 17/9/2021
Author: Emily Shorter