Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Wooden box for kola nuts, highly carved'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
'1239' written in pencil on inside of lid.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
'1239' written in pencil on inside of base.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas label adhered to inside of lid reads: '68 | 1239 / Box for Kola nuts, highly carved. / Ijeba'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas/Bevan label adhered to inside of lid reads: 'T.C.1239 / KOLA BOX'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads "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

Description (Physical description)
Accretions, ?white paint on lid.
Event Date 14/6/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Oblong kola box from Ijeba (Uzebba), simple decorations of raised squares, both in horizontal and vertical segments on the lid. The handle consists of five semi-circular knobs rising from the plane of the lid. Two sides of the box and the bottom are undecorated. The interior of the box is deep seated, perhaps to take two layers of kola nuts on top of each other. [Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.]

Event Date 1/2013
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)
Rectangular wooden box with carved geometric decoration on lid and two long sides. The decoration consists of incised lines leaving small rectangular segments arranged in various directions. The handle is formed of five semicircular protrusions arranged in a line along the centre of the lid.
Event Date 16/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring