Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Basket of plaited fibre'

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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label found with baket: 'Hexagonal basket / NIGERIA'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Note found with basket: 'Nig. Thomas / for ground nuts'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas collection label attached with string: '2276 | 1238 / Basket, of plaited fibre. / Ijeba'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Luggage tag label attached with string: '1238 Basket'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Catalogue card Z 12460 A-C: Coll -Thomas: Don- Bevan' and 'A: June 1978; B: 6/3/19-78; C: April 1978' possibly indicating when the objects were last checked.

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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria. [T.Cotterill]
Event Date 7/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

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 29/1/2013
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Circular basket with square base, made from plaited plant fibre.
Event Date 5/10/2021
Author: Katrina Dring