anklet(Amadavathi)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.29
- Description
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Pair of anklets; rectangular, on string base and decorated with threaded and woven ?glass beads. White beads prominent, on natural string. Central triangular design in blues, black, green, red and yellow, with borders across anklet in multi-coloured diagonal stripes. Two long horizontal stripes across bottom edge in single rows of green and red. Blue latticed fringe at short sides, white fringe at bottom. Ties have large white and green beads. One end of anklet has become folded over.
- Production date
- 1940s-1960s
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.20 centimetres
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Width: 30 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- 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
- Af1997,06.29
