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Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12891
Description: Wooden bottle stopper, carved with two animals back to back.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 15 cm long, 10 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12904
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with a beetle or lizard carved across the top.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: A: 14 cm long, 7 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: TEMP.01359
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with carved two headed figure, male and female.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 15.5cm long, 5.5cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12916
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with two carved heads back to back.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 19.5 cm long, 10 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12929
Description: Wooden bottle stopper carved with two small heads, back to back.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 17 cm long, 10 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12960
Description:
Wooden bottle stopper carved, with 2 small heads back to back.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 16 cm long, 9 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12969
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with a carved ridge across the top. Fibre wound around the top of the stem.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 15 cm long, 11.5 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 12993
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with carved animal across the top.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 10 cm long, 9 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13024
Description: Wooden bottle stopper. Inverted triangle top with two triangular cavities in the middle.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 15 cm long, 5 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13035
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with two naturalistically carved back-to-back human heads.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 17.5 cm long, 9 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13053
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with two human heads, male and female. String and leather wrapped round the necks.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 13 cm long, 6 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number:Z 13188
Description: Wooden bottle stopper. Two carved human heads back-to-back.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 14 cm long, 8.5 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13197
Description: Wooden bottle stopper. Two carved heads joined together at the skull, to create a triangular design at the top of the stop.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 14.5 cm long, 9 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13198
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with schematically carved double human head.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 18.5 cm long, 8 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13345
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with two carved heads sporting pointed chins.
Cultural sub-group: Ghotuo
Town: Otua/Otwa/Otuo
Measurements: 21 cm long, 9 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13377
Description: Wooden bottle stopper with two carved heads - back-to-back - on the top.
Cultural sub-group: Ghotuo
Town: Otua/Otwa/Otuo
Measurements: 18.5 cm long, 9.5 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13445
Description: Carved wooden bottle stopper with a piece of leather through the loop on the top.
Cultural sub-group: Ora
Town: Sabongida/Sabongidda Ora
Measurements: 15 cm long, 9 cm wide
Carved wooden bottle stopper
Object number: Z 13507
Description: Wooden bottle stopper. Two carved human or animal heads back-to-back.
Cultural sub-group: Ora
Town: Sabongida/Sabongidda Ora
Measurements: 19 cm long, 6 cm wide
