anklet(Amadavathi)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.22.a-b
- Description
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Pair of anklets; rectangular, on fibre base and decorated with threaded and woven ?glass beads. White beads prominent, on natural string, with design of inward-facing arrows in red, green, dark blue, oragen, pale blue and yellow (from outer to centre). Latticed fringe in white on three edges. Natural string ties tipped with large green and white glass or plastic beads. On anklet b), one tie is red.
- Production date
- 1940s-1960s
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.50 centimetres (a)
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Height: 5.50 centimetres (b)
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Width: 37.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 37 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Professor Jolles collection notes read "for umemulo (coming of age celebration) and worn by married women. Also when a girl visits her future husband's family for the first time (ukugaua)." He notes that the vernacular name for this object is 'ingusha.' For items Af.1997.6.10 to 29 he notes that the anklets with fringes are also known as 'amadavathi' or 'umuxafazo'.
- 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
- Acquired by Professor Jolles in 1989.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1997,06.22.a-b
