pubic-ornament(Umgingqo/Isigege/Ishapha);
pubic-cover
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.138
- Description
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Beadwork pubic apron; ?glass beads woven onto fibre, consisting of rectangular panel, at end of beaded cylindrical waistband. Panel is predominately white, with central stylised hour-glass shape made of blocks of four beads. From outside to centre, colours follow: orange; white; translucent green; white; dark blue; white; pale blue; black; dark blue; green; pink. Flanked on each side by pair of red cross shapes, made of five sqaures of red beads. Latticed white fringe on bottom edge. White waistband with two multi-coloured bands on 4.2 cm long. Orangel wool ties finished with clusters of lime-green beads.
- Production date
- 1975 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.80 centimetres
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Width: 31.50 centimetres
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Depth: 20 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 is worn by izintombi, girls aged 13-20s, boys up to six years old.
Umgingqo = "to roll"
- 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
- Af1997,06.138
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 142 (Jolles collection number)