Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 12471: 'Brass hair ornament.' [Added in different handwriting] 'with shaped handle with incised pattern on it.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Pencil drawing on rear of catalogue card.
Event Date 21/6/2000
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Thomas Collection label accompanies object.
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 (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)
Brass hairpin with jagged edge around the top section. The jagged protrusions have negative triangular spaces within. The top has a central design of spiral lines running down vertically. The rounded head has a similar spiral line running across its curvature. Three dots are visible at the point where the pin starts to taper down. 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