pubic-cover(Isigege/Ishapha);
pubic-ornament
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.115
- Description
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Beadwork pubic apron; ?glass beadwork woven onto fibre, in a rectangular panel, without waistband. Predominately white, with motif of interlocked triangles with central green diamond with yellow and orange centre. Flanked by small sets of green and orange trianges. Double border at long edge, none at sides. Red string at top.
- Production date
- 1950s-1960s
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
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Depth: 0.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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See Collection File: Af1997,06.2-265 (formerly EthDoc 391).
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Jolles notes that is worn by amatshitshi fifteen years and upwards.
Colours changing from old style when Mrs Dladla was born (i.e. 1954). Designs at side: new generations, new colours.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Items from the Jolles collection were on display in the BP Ethnography Showcase exhibition entitled 'Zulu Beadwork', which closed on 18 Jan 1998.
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- Af1997,06.2 to 265 [no.1 was never used], was purchased from Professor Frank Jolles in the Republic of South Africa, and is described in the purchase book as "a large collection of Zulu beadwork, mainly from the Maphumulo district of Kwazulu, Republic of South Africa. The collection was formed from the 1940s to the 1980s by the trader Howard Balcomb and his father." Acquired by Frank Jolles in 1989.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1997,06.115
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 119 (Jolles collection number)