pubic-ornament(Umgingqo/Isigege/Ishapha);
pubic-cover
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.153
- Description
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Beadwork pubic apron; ?glass beads woven onto fibre, in a rectangular panel at end of beaded cylindrical waistband. Panel is predominately white, with red latticed fringe along bottom edge and along entirety of waistband; white latticed fringe along short edges of panel. Panel decorated with central diamond in blue with white, orange and green core, with two and a half diamond shapes above and below. Flanked on each side by vertical zig-zag stripes in translucent orange, green, orange and blue from centre outwards. At sides of panel are five crosses arranged vertically: top and bottom are large, in green and orange; smaller middle crosses are orange, blue and green.
- Production date
- 1975 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.70 centimetres
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Width: 32 centimetres
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Depth: 20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Collection File: Af1997,06.2-265 (formerly EthDoc 391).
- 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
- Af1997,06.153
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 157 (Jolles collection number)