anklet
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.17.a-b
- Description
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Pair of beaded anklets; rectangular, white glass lattice-work fringe on lower edge. Anklets comprise predominantly white glass beads; one anklet has central royal blue panel flanked by orange and green panels. Other anklet has central green panel flanked by royal blue and black panels. Strung on natural cotton thread, black and natural fibre?
- Production date
- 1940s
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.20 centimetres (a)
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Height: 13 centimetres (b)
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Width: 60.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 44 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Eth. Doc.154.
Collection notes record that such anklets are used for coming of age celebration ('umemulo') by married women; 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
- Af1997,06.17.a-b
