anklet
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.14.a-b
- Description
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Pair of beadwork anklets; rectangular, with white and orange glass bead lattice-work fringe at lower edge. Anklets comprise predominantly white glass beads; one anklet has central royal blue panel flanked by mid blue and black panels; other anklet has central orange panel flanked by green and royal blue glass beads. Strung on red and black fibre? thread.
- Production date
- 1940s
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 centimetres (a)
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Height: 12 centimetres (b)
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Width: 36 centimetres (a)
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Width: 37.50 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 0.40 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc.154.
Collection notes record that such anklets ('ingusha') are used for coming of age celebrations ('umemulo') by married wome; also when a girl visits her future husband's faimly for the first time ('ukugaua').
- 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.
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by the vendor in 1989.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1997,06.14.a-b
