Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas label attached with string reads: '749 | Obu | 261 / Stirrer (aziza ofe) for soup, loop handle.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Used for stirring soup; loop handle
[different hand] A bundle of canes, bound together by cane at the top.

Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Black and white photograph attached to rear of catalogue card

Event Date
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)
A bundle of canes bound together at the top with a single loop. Parts of the cane binding are becoming undone. [R.Hand]
Event Date 11/7/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
This stirrer is shown in Thomas' field photograph, P.31029.NWT.
Event Date 28/11/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
A stirrer made from a bundle of cane strips, lopped back on itself to form a handle. The handle is bound with a separate cane strip and this binding is coming loose. There is a thread caught in the bottom of the stirrer.
Event Date 23/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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

Event Date 23/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Aziza ofe. A stirrer for soup, made from a bundle of cane strips, looped back on itself to form a handle. The handle is bound with a separate, slightly wider strip of cane, that has been wound around the handle; however, this binding is starting to come loose.
Event Date 14/9/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff