Object Listing

Rectangle of dark textile that has two beaded angels on it with the words YEHOVHA IMURISI WAMINA NDZI NGA KANDZI NGAPFUMARI NCHUMU beaded across the top and the name VENUS BILLY MAKHUBELE across the bottom.

Skirt with two leather belts heavily decorated with metal studs and reflectors. The body of the skirt is constructed from multiple strips of leather some of which have beading stitched in, others metal studs and reflectors.

Cape made from layers of textiles each with a beaded strip along one edge which have been layered one upon the other so as to form a cascade of beaded flaps. Designs are, varied, geometric and linear with abstracted house, motor cars, lettering and people motifs included. The upper flap has the words UMUNTU UIU? NGEMA YEIEIE I KE beaded into it.F rom the top flap a semi-circular beaded roll and two long bunches of beaded strings are attached. These hang down the cape at its back.

Flat woven telephone wire basket with exuberant colourful geometric designs. There is a small section that is a-typical that replicates the South African flag colours.

Blackened ceramic vessel that flares out from a smallish base into a balloon shaped sphere. It has no neck and has a broad panel of rows of amasumpa designs positioned below the neckline and extending to the midway circumference line.

Blackened ceramic vessel that flares out from a smallish base into a balloon shaped sphere that is widest in the upper body. It has no neck and has linear zigzag designs running horizontally around its body. Some of the V shapes are filled in with amasumpa designs and some V shaped are outlined with amasumpa patterned ridges

Blackened ceramic vessel that flares out from a smallish base into a balloon shaped sphere. It has no neck and has rectangular panels of linear pattern ridges places at angles around the upper section of the vessel. It has some small chips out of its rim and a crack has been repaired with metal staples.

Blackened ceramic vessel that flares out from a smallish base into a balloon shaped sphere. It has no neck and has panels of pecked marks into the clay contained in 3 panels, positioned at the broadest point in the circumference, that have irregular zigzag lines on two sides.

Large balloon-like vessel with large open mouth. It has a rough surface and is bound by an irregular wide mesh of wire. It stands on a low raised round foot.

Woven basket with 3 abstracted quadruped designs and a triangle

Spherical pot blackened with no decoration

Spherical pot blackened with no decoration

Spherical pot blackened with no decoration

Woven basket with 5 abstracted bird designs and an open diamond design.

Woven basket with 2 abstracted bird designs

Vessel with curved base and straight sides. It has zigzag and other designs created by embedding beads into the clay surface

Vessel with curved base and straight sides. It has some wavy, zigzag and circular designs around its circumference about 2/3 of the way up its sides. These designs are created by embedding coloured seed beads into the clay. It has a chip in its rim.

Headrest with a flat crossbar that projects outwards into two flat horizontal tails. It has two legs at each end and a projecting lug in the middle. These are all linked by a rectangular bar that runs from leg to leg. The sides of all elements are decorated with diamond and triangular designs.

Long slightly curved crossbar with raised ridges at the narrow ends and parallel to them. Five sets of wedge- shaped legs with grooved linear horizontal designs with vertical pleats near their tops and grooved vertical lines at the bottom section of the legs.

Staff with round head and two snakes twining up the central section of the shaft

Wooden staff with three horizontal sections that project beyond the shaft of the staff like wings. These are spaced along the upper section of the staff . The shaft sections between these is covered with a beadwork sheath. These wings have horizontal V-designs in pokerwork with points facing inwards towards the shaft.

Amphora-like shape resting an inverted truncated cone. It has two wing-like handles and is covered with grooves parallel lines over the entire surface of the vessel - on the base the lines are slanted; on the body vertical and on the handles horizontal.

Roughly rectangular trough shaped container with four flat tapered legs at each corner. These are decorated with parallel grooved lines. From each end of the lower edge of the bowl and from the centres of its long sides project four cylindrical open arched shaped loops.

Oval platter on four legs (one broken) with a long handle at one end and curved hollow projection at the other end. The long handle has a foot about 1/5 of the way towards its end and bands of wire work decorating the shaft

Horizontal rectangular headrest with crossbar curving slightly up at ends. The body is punctuated by two vertical rectangular holes and the base is a flat plane. Two arrows in relief carving point up from the base at either end. On the face of each end are twinned anthropomorphic figures with largish heads that stand to attention as end supports.

Horizontal rectangular block headrest with flat crossbar that has linear designs at either end of upper surface. Geometric designs such as checkerboard, triangles, interlocking Vs in relief embellish the two largest surfaces

Globe-shaped container on three rectangular legs with bowl-shaped lid. The lid had three short rectangular legs and the containers legs are wide at their tops and narrow towards their bases with shapes like obtuse triangles. The whole is decorated with zones with parallel grooved lines. There are numerous cracks in the body of the vessel.

Large ovoid vessel with two circular rings circling the body but spaced away by the base support. The two rings are joined by 4 pillars and these rest on a base with two horizontal struts and four legs. All the elements are covered with deeply carved grooved parallel lines.