Preface and Acknowledgements ( HTML | PDF )
PART ONE CONTEXT
Chapter 1 The Verre ( HTML | PDF )
Chapter 2 Documenting the early colonial assemblage - 1900s to 1910s ( HTML | PDF )
Chapter 3 Documenting the early post-colonial assemblage - 1960s to 1970s ( HTML | PDF )
Interleaf 'Brass Work of Adamawa': a display cabinet in the Jos Museum - 1967 ( HTML | PDF )
PART TWO ARTS
Chapter 4 Brass skeuomorphs: thinking about originals and copies ( HTML | PDF )
Chapter 5 Towards a catalogue raisonnée
5.2 Personal Ornaments ( HTML | PDF )
5.3 Initiation helmets and crooks ( HTML | PDF )
5.4 Hoes and daggers ( HTML | PDF )
5.5 Prestige skeuomorphs ( HTML | PDF )
5.6 Anthropomorphic figures ( HTML | PDF )
Chapter 6 Conclusion: late works ̶ Verre brasscasting in context ( HTML | PDF )
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 The Verre collection in the Jos and Lagos Museums in Nigeria ( HTML | PDF )
Appendix 2 Chappel's Verre vendors ( HTML | PDF )
Appendix 3 A glossary of Verre terms for objects, their uses and descriptions ( HTML | PDF )
Appendix 4 Leo Frobenius's unpublished Verre ethnological notes and part inventory ( HTML | PDF )
31 vendor names are attached to sale events (i.e. of one or several items on a given date), but one name may well be a duplicate, which would reduce the number to 30. Vendors were recorded consistently from 66.J11.279 (20 June 1966) onwards. The overwhelming majority of purchases were made from Cholli vendors. The number of recorded sale events is 46. These provide a measure of frequency of interaction: 25 vendors were involved in fewer than 10 sale events (22 of these in 5 or fewer), while 6 featured in 10 or more. Of the 453 items acquired with the name of a vendor, 259 were bought from the 5 vendors (including the main informants Samuel Cholli and Yakubu, plus Akila, Ayuba, and Yakubu) who each sold 40 or more items.
Abila 3 (7) 648-50 (3); 715-17 (3); 800 (1)
Akila 15 (76) 307-21 (15), 348-55 (18), 377 (1), 394-6 (3), 416 (1), 423-7 (5), 487-90 (4), 511-6 (6), 565-67 a&b (13/14), 570-1 (2), 616-8 (3), 683 (1), 737 (1), 752-3 (2), 765 (1)
Ali Tukur 3 (10) 279-82 (4), 322-26 (5), 721
Alim Cholli 1 (1) 628
Ardo Sambo (District Head) 5 (18) 435-7 (3), 447-48 (2), 496-7 (2), 561-64 (4), 65-61 (7)
Ayuba 15 (57) 283-9 (7), 291-302 (12), 359-60 (2), 433-34 (2), 540-44 (5), 559-60 (2), 591-2 (2), 620-22 (3), 637-42 (7), 684-87 (4), 699 (1), 707-8 (2), 723-4 (2), 750 (1), 771-75 (5)
Bapi Cholli 2 (3) 626-27 (2), 690 (1)
Boniface 6 (13) 445-6 (2), 465 (1), 499-503 (5), 534 (1), 622-23 (2), 804 (1)
Elli 4 (12) 611-13 (3), 668-74 (7), 709 (1), 770 (1)
Ezzara 9 (24) 496-8 (3), 414 (1), 429-32 (4), 464 (1), 506-7 (2), 537-39 (3), 579-87 (9), 662 (1), 714 (1)
Gidado of Uki 1 (2) 735-6 (2)
Hamman Tukur of Tuki 7 (22) 677-80 (4), 700-3 (4), 731-34 (4), 746-48 (3), 769 (1), 801-2 (2), 809-12 (4),
Ibrahim 2 (6) 409-11 (3), 452-4 (3)
James 3 (12) 535 (1), 602-10 (9), 643-4 (2)
Jida Cholli 1 (1) 290
Layi 2 (8) 102 (1), 651-57 (7)
Majoda 1 (4) 401-4 (4),
Manu=Usumanu? 1 (2) 688-89 (2)
Maudai 2 (6) 529-33 (5), 568 (1)
Modari Cholli (carver) 1 (2) 664-5 (2)
Musa Cholli 10 (25) 345-47 (3), 358 (1), 368-69 (2), 412-13 (2), 422 (1), 548-50 (3), 573-4 (2), 633-36 (4), 719 (1), 755-60 (6)
Ɔfa Kila of Ragin (brass caster) 1 (1) 749 & 751 (2) (see also 750),
Salimu 16 (4) 356-57 (2), 361-66 (6), 378-81 (4), 405 (1), 428 (1), 455-57 (3), 504 (1), 546-47 (2), 572 (1), 595-97 (3), 619 (1), 629-32 (4), 691 (1), 761-64 (4), 798-99 (2), 813-20 (8)
Samuel Cholli 13 (42) 331-44 (14), 382-86 (5), 397 (1), 415 (1), 443-44 (2), 491-5 (5), 505 (1), 517-20 (4), 593 (1), 681-82 (2), 697-98 (2), 711-13 (3), 718 (1)
Simon 2 (3) 594 (1), 614-15 (2)
Stefanus 1 (3) 588-90 (3)
Usumanu=Manu? 2 (3) 754 (1), 776-77 (2)
Wakili 1 (3) 766-8 (3).
Woman dancer (anon) of Uki 1 (1) 720 (1)
Yakubu 13 (40) 304-6 (3), 367 (1), 420-21 (2), 441-42 (2), 498 (1), 521-28 (8), 569 (1), 663 (1), 675-76 (12), 698a/b (2), 722 (1), 725-29 (5), 803 (1)
Yesufu 2 (2) 545 (1), 710 (1)
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