Description (Labels & Markings)
Written on object: 'T.10.1534'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card has a stamp which reads "Coll -Thomas: Don- Bevan"
Card also reads "O.N. 1217" on rear.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 12439: 'Brass hair ornament for dances, no decoration on reverse'. [Added in different handwriting]: 'It has 2 long, flexible prongs, with red feathers attached to the end of them.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Thomas Collection label accompanies object.

Event Date 10/5/2001
Author: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Only fragments of feather and fibre remain.
Event Date 15/5/2001
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)
Ornament for hair, brass, with two long prongs. Northcote Thomas label reads: ‘Aznwelomo’. Cut out from beaten sheet of metal. Designs are cut out in the base of the pin, which has jagged edges. The two prongs have a red parrot feather each attached to their tips, which indicates magical powers. The object is very flexible. 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)
Aznwelomo. Brass hair ornament for dances. Pin is round in cross section and inserted into a collar made from a flat sheet of metal decorated with an incised cross and toothed edges. The sheet splits into two long tails, each clasping a red feather.
Event Date 24/9/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe