Ethnographic Objects
Brass Ogboni Staff
Local Name:Edan Ogboni
Brass Ogboni Staff depicting a standing female figure with a loop on the head and holding her breast. it rests on a tiny handle.
1974
Ogboni Staff
Local Name:Edan Ogboni
Kneeling figure with prominent features, prominent hairstyle, long prominent ears holding both breasts. the hook on the end of the staff is flattened, curved and has three holes.
1963
Calabash Container (Puanra)
Local Name:Puanra
A calabash container with a slightly flared rim, long narrow neck, and rounded body. The surface is incised with geometric and zoomorphic patterns.
1952
Straw Strainer
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A straw strainer with intricate herringbone weaving, flared rim with a wood attached to represent handle.
1969
Raffia Beret (Dara)
Local Name:Dara
A woven-raffia beret with its rim taped with leather.
2001
Straw Strainer
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A straw strainer with intricate herringbone weaving. It has a flared rim.
2008
Calabash Spoon
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A calabash spoon with engraved geometric decorations.
1950
Lidded Calabash Bowl
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A lidded calabash bowl with metallic loop handles atop the lid and at the side of the bowl. The lid is decorated with dotted patterns while the rim of the bowl is decorated with rectangular patterns. The lid and bowl are fastened together with tiny ropes.
1972
Wooden Water Spirit Headdress (Owu Headdress)
Local Name:Owu
A wooden headdress stylized in the form of an abstract head surrounded by eight other miniature heads on an elongated horizontal structure. Each head has cylindrical eyes, triangular nose, square mouth, with the central head featuring exposed dentition. It is coloured with stains of orange and white pigments, and surmounts a hollowed base.
1955
Lidded Calabash Bowl (Kekpo)
Local Name:Kekpo
A lidded calabash bowl with a metallic loop handle and geometric patterns on the lid.
1972
Terracotta Pot (Osa-Ile)
Local Name:Osa-Ile
A rounded terracotta pot with slightly flared rim and narrow neck. On the surface are motifs of animal face and intricate relief patterns.
1974
Lidded Calabash Bowl (Kekpo)
Local Name:Kekpo
A lidded calabash bowl with a metallic loop handle at the side of the bowl. The lid is decorated with metallic studs, and surmounted by a metallic loop handle to which is attached a bell.
1972
Wooden Water Spirit Headdress
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A wooded water spirit headdress representing a coiled snake. The surface is decorated with green and white stripes while the underneath is coloured blue. It surmounts a hollowed base to which is attached rubber band, twine and cane.
1975
Straw Strainer
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An intricately woven straw strainer with a flared rim.
1988
Terracotta Pot
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A rounded terracotta pot with thick rim and intricate relief patterns on its surface.
1964
Wooden Headdress (Water Spirit)
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A wooden headdress representing a crocodile with gaping mouth and a metallic bell dangling from the upper lip, short horn-like projection on both sides of the head, three horns at the back of the head with a bell attached to the middle horn. It is coloured green, black and white, and surmounts a hollowed base to which is attached, twine, rubber band and a stripe of ragged textile.
1972
Wooden Spoon
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A wooden spoon with a stylized anthropomorphic handle and an oval-shaped bowl.
1973
Cutlass
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A cutlass with a curved blade painted blue and perforated in three places. Its handle is made of wood, covered with leather and a stripe of red textile.
1974
Calabash Bowl
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A calabash bowl decorated inside and out with intricate geometric patterns.
1971
Calabash Bowl
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A small rounded calabash bowl with detailed geometric decoration.
1959