Context (Related Documents)
Sketch of object on reverse of the catalogue card.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Bottle top slightly carved.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Bottle stopper. Inverted triangle with two triangular holes in the middle. Round flat carving on top of the triangle. No harness hole. Design is not representational, graphic. Side of triangle incised carving, with three lines. Rim of the round top is also incised, as is the base of the stopper, which gives it some symmetry. 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 a triangle above topped by a flat circle, and a long protrusion below which narrows towards the tip; two smaller triangular cut outs present within the larger triangle. Object has possibly been coated in an unknown substance, which has started to crack.
Event Date 6/10/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (Acquisition Details)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria.
Event Date 6/10/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal