Description (Labels & Markings)
Thomas label adhered to base reads: '845A | 1755B / Figurine for shrine (omomizi). / Okpe.'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'EDO | OKPE / 1755a,b, / Figure for shrine, two back to back with bird; another separate [sic].'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased using money from Prof. A.A. Bevan’s subscription to the Museum’s Accessions Fund.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Blench, R. M., 1995. The Work of N.W. Thomas as Government Anthropologist in Nigeria. The Nigerian Field, 60, pp.29.

Event Date 1995
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Object is covered with black substance, ?mud. The figure is a carved wooden figure with head facing backwards. There is an object on the head ?gourd, ?jar.
Event Date 30/5/2001
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 (Analysis)
Probably done by the same artist as Z 13077.1. Figure of a kneeling woman made of very light wood. She carries a pot on her head. Northcote Thomas label reads: ‘figure from a shrine’ and ‘omo mizi’.
[Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. January 2013.]

Event Date 29/01/2013
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Northcote W. Thomas in Edo State, Okpe town.
Event Date 29/1/2013
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Analysis)
The inhabitants of Okpe town 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 1995.
Event Date 29/1/2013
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Wooden carving of a kneeling figure with a vessel balanced on top of the head. The figure's arms are by the sides, but with elbows pointing to the front of the body. There is a block depicted in front of the knees which has an X carved in relief. The whole is carved from a light-weight wood covered in a black pigment.
Event Date 21/9/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Physical description)
Record updated as part of the Museum Affordances project 2018-2020

Event Date 21/9/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2021.5230 | Freezing
Event Date 9/12/2021
Author: Ayesha Fuentes