Context (Related Documents)
Note on catalogue card in different hand reads: 'lid only April 1978'
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Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas label adhered to inside of lid reads: '64 | 343 / Box and Dish combined. Dog on dish. / Obu.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 14198[.1-2]: 'Combined box and dish'. [In different hand:] 'A dog on the top. Painted mouth, nostrils and eyes'.
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Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Luggage tag, torn, attached with string reads: 343 / Okwa[broken edge]'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 14198.2: 'Dark, wooden oval dish with hollowed-out square in the middle. Flat rim with two incised parallel lines circling them.'
Event Date 01/09/2000
Author: Sam Daisley

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Description (Physical description)
Rachel Hand description for Z 24560.1: 'Chip in rim. White accretions, ?paint, on base.'
Event Date 15/06/2001
Author: Sam Daisley

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Description (Physical description)
Kate Sutton description for Z14198.1: 'Lid of box carved to resemble a dog with an incised cross on each side of body'.
Event Date 20/11/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

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

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Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 14198.1: 'Okwa. Lid for a box - Z 14198.2, carved in the shape of a dog with the tail curling back over the top. The eyes, nose and mouth are painted with white pigment, and there is a cross incised into each side of the body. '
Event Date 14/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Record updated as part of the Museum Affordances project 2018-2020

Event Date 14/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Found together / assemblage)
This object is shown in MAA accessioned picture P.31169.NWT (Thomas number NWT 2893).
Event Date 16/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 14198.2: 'Okwa. Wide brimmed wooden box with central raised platform and adjoining lid shaped like a dog - Z 14198.1.'
Event Date 13/09/2021
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (Amendments / updates)
At an unknown date, the base of this dish became detached from its accession number, Z 14198, and was subsequently assigned a second accession number, Z 24560. The lid was processed in 2018 as part of the Museum Affordances project but the base was not found.
In 2021, during the Stores Move Project, the base of the dish was found and identified as belonging to the lid, therefore the records were combined and the base and lid processed together as a complete object.
Event Date 23/6/2022
Author: Katrina Dring

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Exhibition (Spotlight Gallery)
EXH.2022.11 | Spotlight on Stores Move
Event Date 25/7/2022
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Display)
Displayed as part of the Spotlight on Stores Move exhibition. Caption provided by Katrina Dring: 'Tail of two halves. Part of this box was missing for at least 43 years. I worked with the lid in 2018 and was upset that the base, shown in a 1911 photograph, had since been misplaced. Three years later, I recognised the base on a colleague’s desk and we reunited them!'
Event Date 4/2023
Author: Katrina Dring