back-ornament(Oyiya/Ubeshwane)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.31
- Description
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Back decoration or panel; consisting of ?glass beadwork, predominately white, on a fibre background. Rectangular, with three central triangular motifs in blues, black, white and yellow, with zig-zag multi-coloured borders. Red wool ties with clusters of six blue plastic beads at ends.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.80 centimetres
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Width: 156 centimetres (with string ties)
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Width: 21.50 centimetres (without string ties)
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Depth: 0.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Professor Jolles collection notes read:
"Worn by izinsizwe, courting young men but only by those who already have a steady girlfriend. The upper set of strings goes round back of neck then over shoulders and under armpits. The lower set goes around waist, tied at front. So the panel sits in the small of the back or just above."
- 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
- Af1997,06.31
