anklet(Amadavathi)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.28.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; central triangular design in green, black, blues and orange; decorated along entirety with diagonal multi-coloured stripes. White latticed fringe on three sides; top length has border of single beads attached at intervals by clusters of three beads. Black wool ties.
- Production date
- 1940s-1960s
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres (a)
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Height: 4 centimetres (b)
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Width: 40.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 46 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.40 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 0.40 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
- Af1997,06.28.a-b
