Description (Physical description)
Bottle top with two heads back to back.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria.
Event Date 07/05/2001
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Described by Robert Blench on 5/10/1986. Z 12916 has negative number 52/7. Information taken from Robert Blench’s paper copy of the Northcote W. Thomas database created in the 1990s. Archival reference: AA6/4/18.


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

Description (Physical description)
Bottle stopper. Two heads back to back. Harness hole in the middle, crude carving. Left head has a line on top of the head through to the harness hole. The eyes are just two dots. Cubic jaw structure. Smoothened by hand through use. Big bottle stopper or perhaps for a ceramic jug. No design on stopper base. 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 3/12/2012
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
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 4/12/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Carved wooden bottle stopper. Comprises of a rounded top with two back-to-back heads above, and a long protrusion below which narrows towards the tip; harness hole present between the two heads. Stopper has been smoothened by hand through use.
Event Date 5/10/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal