- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Beadwork neck ornament with long front pendant and two pairs of smaller pendants to each side. Two circular tins head of ?Queen Victoria hang off front pendant. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/9/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Eastern Cape Tsolo [St Cuthbert's Mission]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1923
- Date collected
- By 1923
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1923
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Tin Metal, Process Recycled, Process Beadwork, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Length: max 315 mm, Width: max 400 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.34.33
- Research and responses
For information on the collector, the mission for which he worked (St Cuthbert at Tsolo), and the wider context, see 'Jubilee Dandies: Collecting Beadwork in Tsolo, Eastern Cape 1897–1932', by Anitra Nettleton, in African Arts, Vol. 46, no. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 36–49. (Printout of article in RDF for collection 1923.34.) [JC 25 11 2015]
For information on the collector, the mission for which he worked (St Cuthbert at Tsolo), and the wider context, see 'Of Severed Heads and Snuff Boxes: "Survivance" and Beaded Bodies in the Eastern Cape, 1897–1932', by Anitra Nettleton, in African Arts, Vol. 48, no. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 22–33. (Printout of article in RDF for collection 1923.34.) [JC 25 11 2015]
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour as Figure 1 on page 23 of 'Of Severed Heads and Snuff Boxes: "Survivance" and Beaded Bodies in the Eastern Cape, 1897–1932', by Anitra Nettleton, in African Arts, Vol. 48, no. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 22–33. Caption (same page) reads: '1 Mpondomise necklace with snuff tins representing the head of Queen Victoria. Collected by Mr. Frank Cornner in the vicinity of St. Cuthbert's Mission near Tsolo, Eastern Cape, before 1923. 31.5 cm x 40 cm | Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, no. 1923.34.33'. (Printout of article in RDF for collection 1923.34.) [JC 25 11 2015]
Search terms: Ornament, Box, Bead, Neck Ornament