anklet(Ingusha)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.5.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. Zig-zag design, with fringe on one long edge. At tie ends are red beaded borders, thicker at one end than the other.
- Production date
- 1950s
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.20 centimetres (a)
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Height: 9.20 centimetres (b)
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Width: 47.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 49 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
- Af1997,06.5.a-b
