plume;
shield
- Museum number
- Af.6095
- Description
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Bamboo staff covered with black ostrich feathers; the lower end has an iron spike by which the staff is fixed into two loops at the back of the shield [Af.6094]
- Production date
- 1860-1870 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 139.20 centimetres
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Width: 14 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Belongs together with shield Af.6094.
In: Giblin, J., & Spring, C., 2016, ‘South Africa: the art of a nation’. London, Thames and Hudson, pp 159-161
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2016-2017 27 Oct-26 Feb, London, BM, G35, South Africa: the art of a nation
- Condition
- Broken (vein/margin?).
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- Af.6066 to 6167 were given by Miss Powles on 22 February 1870; all were collected by the Rev. Frederick Ellenberger, a French missionary working at Masitise in Basutoland from 1860.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.6095
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1870C1.6095 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Af1870C0222.30
