pubic-ornament(Isigege);
pubic-cover
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.120
- Description
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Beadwork pubic apron; ?glass beads woven onto fibre, in a rectangular panel on beaded waistband. Panel is predominately white, with coloured, interlocked triangles and diamonds in orange, dark blue with small white triangles, pale blue, black yellow and translucent orange. Double fringe at bottom edge. Hangs on cylindrical beaded roll stuffed with black fabric. Remainder of waistband is white, plaited in eight bands, with white plastic beads at ends.
- Production date
- 1960s
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres
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Width: 23.50 centimetres
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Depth: 21 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 apron band is called pondweni (or dlelaziyego, meaning 'the way to Johannesburg.')
Plait of 8 strands.
- 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
- Af1997,06.120
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 124 (Jolles collection number)