anklet(Ingusha)
- Museum number
- Af1997,06.7.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. Stripe design. At end with ties is white beaded border with design of four green beads in square with central red bead. Orange triangular fringe on one long edge.
- Production date
- 1950s
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.80 centimetres (a)
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Height: 9.80 centimetres (b)
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Width: 55 centimetres (a)
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Width: 50 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.40 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 0.40 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
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See Collection File: Af1997,06.2-265 (formerly EthDoc 391).
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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' (pl. izingusha)
- 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
- Af1997,06.2 to 265 [no.1 was never used], was purchased from Professor Frank Jolles in the Republic of South Africa, and is described in the purchase book as "a large collection of Zulu beadwork, mainly from the Maphumulo district of Kwazulu, Republic of South Africa. The collection was formed from the 1940s to the 1980s by the trader Howard Balcomb and his father." Acquired by Frank Jolles in 1989.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1997,06.7.a-b
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 7 (Jolles collection number)