Object Listing

Awl with wooden handle and metal point. The end of point is stuck into a rectangular wooden plug. Handle and plug are embellished with geometric pokerwork designs.

Shallow flaring basket with abstract and geometric designs in black and white. The initials EM are repeated twice in the design and may refer to the maker - Elliott Mikhize.

Flat circle of wood that has been decorated with geometric designs using pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins.

Shallow basket woven from telephone wire with concentric circle design intersected with inward pointing triangles and a round dot in the centre.

Rectangular panels of beading attached to textile backing with long tubular handle with beading wrapped around. It has a zip to close. Designs are triangles with wavy sides.

Simple rectangular woven mat with some green and red stitching

Semicircle roll of beading around a textile core. Diamond designs.

Two matched flat circles of wood consisting of two layers of wood each with fretwork designs. One side has a rectangle with zigzags and the other the same design but with two added triangles top and bottom.

Two flat circles of wood with fretwork designs. These are very similar with minor differences - one has a line of triangles, one trefoil, a triangle on a triangle and a line curved up at its ends. The other has two lines of interlocking triangles, two trefoils, and a line curved up at its ends . The inside surfaces have been painted in colours

Flat circle of wood

Matching flat circles of wood that have been decorated in geometric designs with pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins.

Matching flat circles of wood that have been decorated in geometric designs with pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins.

Matching flat circles of wood that have been decorated in geometric designs with pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins. Rising sun design

Matching flat circles of wood that have been decorated on both sides with geometric designs using pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins. Rising sun design

Two flat circles of wood each with fretwork designs. A has circles and triangles and B has triangles only. The insides of the designs are painted with colours.

Flat circle of wood that has been decorated with geometric designs using pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins.

Semicircle roll of beading around a textile core. Diamond and triangular designs.

Flat circle of wood that has been decorated on both sides with geometric designs using pieces of vinyl cut into interlocking shapes and secured with small pins.

Wooden frame (are there 2?) with one side highly decorated with linear and triangular painted designs. At the back the Vryheid is written.

Staff has cylindrical handle but morphs into a rectangular upper section. Its upper 2/3 is decorated with bold geometric designs that wrap around the shaft

Cylindrical staff that flares out with a flat top at the upper end and bulges at the bottom section that ends in a point. More than half the shaft is undecorated but the balance is covered with horizontal bands of colour interspersed with geometric triangular designs.

Rectangular purse woven from plant fibre and open at one narrow end. Covered over one surface with openwork beadwork in a mesh type design.

Rectangular purse woven from plant fibre and open at one narrow end. Covered over one surface with a panel of lacy beadwork with a triangular design in the middle.

Shallow woven bowl-type basket with its upper surface completely covered with lacy beading. It has 4 V shaped designs.

Shallow woven bowl-type basket with its upper surface completely covered with lacy beading. It has 4 geometric motifs as designs. There are large green beads attached to its outer rim.

Shallow woven bowl-type basket with a fringe hanging from its outside rim. The upper surface has 4 sets of two beaded circles that are joined together by some beaded strands. There are 4 bunches of large white beads attached to the top and two twisted strings of beads running down the outside surface.

Shallow woven bowl-type basket. It has a loop of large blue beads attached to its top and two truncated triangular panels of beading attached to opposite sides of its outer surface. Three other beaded decorations are attached and the rim is trimmed with beads

Semicircle roll of beading around a textile core. Panels of colour with checkerboard diamond designs.