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1923.34.35

Neck ornament, consisting of a string of plant fibre, covered with pink beads, from which hang rectangular beadwork flaps: a long one in the middle and 2 shorter ones on either side, with red and black lozenge shapes with white centres on a white background; the string fastens with a white button and blue beadwork loop. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/7/2005]

1923.34.35

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Collection type
Object
Description
Neck ornament, consisting of a string of plant fibre, covered with pink beads, from which hang rectangular beadwork flaps: a long one in the middle and 2 shorter ones on either side, with red and black lozenge shapes with white centres on a white background; the string fastens with a white button and blue beadwork loop. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/7/2005]
Geographical reference
South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Eastern Cape Tsolo [St Cuthbert's Mission]
Cultural groups
Xhosa
Mpondomise
Person
Field collector Frank Cornner
PRM source Frank Cornner
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1923
Date collected
By 1923
Acquisition information
Donated: 1923
Materials and processes
Material Bead, Material Glass, Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Process Strung, Process Beadwork, Process Tied
Dimensions
Length: max 243 mm longest flap, Length: max 390 mm string
Object numbers
Accession number: 1923.34.35
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]

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