Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card has a stamp which reads: 'Coll -Thomas: Don- Bevan'
Reverse of catalogue card reads: 'O.N. 1107'

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 12325[.1-3]: 'Brass hair ornaments, undecorated on the reverse. [Added in different handwriting] There are 3 hair ornaments bearing this number; all have shaped handles, with incised patterned on them.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Thomas Collection label accompanies object. Another old label adds "Kukuruku".
Event Date 10/5/2001
Author: Annie Tomkins

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: Annie Tomkins

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.
Purchased using money from Prof. A.A. Bevan’s subscription to the Museum’s Accessions Fund.
Event Date 4/2/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 12325[.1]: '1 is a brass hairpin. Its head consist of five segments. The top segment is rectangular, followed by a diamond shaped segment with a rectangular cavity in the middle. The third segment is another triangle, which is followed by another diamond shape. The last segment is a triangular shape, which is rounded at the sides. The pin is decorated with crosshatched designs, lines, dots and plain spaces in between.'

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)
Brass hairpin of flat cross section. The head consists of two open lozenges extending from a central spine with crosshatched rectangles above, below and between. Concentric rings decorate the spine.
Event Date 24/9/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe