Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 13396 A-D: 'Ukele. Four brass combs, no decoration on reverse.' [Added to catalogue card:] 'two worked one side with six prongs and two worked with elaborate edge and five prongs'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Thomas Collection label accompanies object.
Event Date 15/5/2001
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: Annie Tomkins

Context (Display)
On display in the 'Origins of the Afro Comb: 6000 years of Culture, Politics and Identity' exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum July 1-November 3 2013. The exhibition label states: 'Hair combs
Made from wood (24 & 25),
copper alloy and brass (26 & 27, 31 & 32)
and bone and pigment (28-30)
Before 1914
From Otuo, South Nigeria
Ghotuo, Edo Culture, Made by Ghotuo Artists
Collected by N.W. Thomas. On loan from Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Z 13334; Z 13387 B; Z 13396; Z 13396; Z 13387;
Z 13397; Z 13387 A; Z 13396; Z 13396'.
Event Date 22/7/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Ukele. A brass comb with six teeth. The handle is decorated with a mirrored pattern; that includes cut-out rhombus shaped sections at the centre and two roughly triangular sections cut-out on each side. At the top is a curved row of a ring and dot pattern. Other indented details include crosshatching and bands of dotted lines. The revers is undecorated.
Event Date 21/9/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins