Context (Related Documents)
Photograph of object on reverse of catalogue card.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Bottle top with two heads, string and leather round necks.'

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
String and leather also wrapped around the stem of the bottle top.
Event Date 25/5/2001
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 7/5/2001
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Description (Physical description)
Bottle stopper. Two human heads, male and female, judged by hairstyle. Female has line on top of the head the man sports more of a knot. Leather strap tied through stop harness hole. String tied to the part of the stop that goes in the bottle, wrapped round it are two different layers; probably to make the stopper fit the bottle properly. Heads are stylised, naturalistic representation. 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. Leather and fibre strings wrapped around object.
Event Date 4/10/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal