anklet(Ingusha)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.3.a-b
- Description
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Pair of anklets; made from multi-coloured ?glass beads threaded and woven onto fibre in a rectangular shape, with string used as ties. Design consists of zig-zag pattern in two directions from a central diamond bordered in yellow. One end has a multi-coloured border with an inner edge of green; with the border divided into three parts, with each part edged on the outer edge with green, orange and green (left to right). Each part is divided by lime-green beaded triangles. Bordered on tie ends in orange; on anklet a) the final long border is green; on b) final border is orange.
- Production date
- 1950s
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres (a)
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Height: 11 centimetres (b)
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Width: 48 centimetres (a)
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Width: 43 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 faimly for the first time (ukugaua)." He notes that the vernacular name for this object is 'ingusha.'
- 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
- Af1997,06.3.a-b
