Object Listing

Staff with an quadriform ovoid finial

Padded band of fabric with beading, embroidery and applique designs

Beaded apron with a truncated triangular panel projecting in the front. It has a panel that covers the top of the under panel. Designs include mhangele/guinea fowl and ndayimani/diamond.

Beaded apron with a triangular section open in front with small tassels of beadwork hanging from the middle. It has a panel that covers the top of the under panel. It is decorated with mhangele/guinea fowl designs.

Long rectangular red textile panel with a shorter blue panel attached to the top. Both are decorated with white geometric beading and the red panel has the words DLAMINI NXUMALO beaded across the front.

Bottle shaped calabash with smaller upper section. Inserted into the top is a stopper carved in the shape of a human head and neck. It has two eyes made from white beads and a large domed head. The body is adorned with strings and fringes of beads as well as a panel of beadwork

Long broad panel of beadwork with nyeleti/star designs in vertical and horizontal rows across it. It had a neck band and a fringe of beads at the bottom.

Semi-circular skirt in open-work beading with zigzag and diamond designs. It is embellished with bead strings with wool pompoms and small metal bells and coins attached to its lower edge.

Gathered skirt in salempore fabric. It has two layers of fabric - a shorter one layered on top the lower longer section. The skirt is covered with a lacy beaded layer and 3 small square and 2 long rectangular beaded panels attached. Over these is another short open work beaded fringe. Geometric designs including ndayimani/diamond and mhangele/guinea fowl.

Columnar clay figure of a woman. She has a large flat head and her two arms are held out to the sides. She wears a cloth apron in the from, beaded and tied at the back with what looks like a shoelace.

Short columnar shape rising from a slightly raised round base. The column is sheathed in beads with the top and bottom of the column uncovered. From the top of the sheath multiple strands of string emerge. The round base has a circular depression in its centre

Variety of beaded hoops wrapped in beadwork

Variety of beaded hoops wrapped in beadwork with metal hoops and metal studs as decoration

Heavy gathered skirt in salempore fabric. It has two layers of fabric - a shorter one that rests on the lower longer section. The lower fringe has two rows of beadwork running horizontally around its entire width in the centre of the panel. The upper layer is fringed with white beads and is covered around most of its extent by rectangular panels of beadwork that have been attached with safety pins. These are in a Varity of designs including the nyaleti/star, xigwagwa/sangomas dancing axe. nyoka/khororo/snake, mhangele/guinea fowl and xisoyaphi

Roundish spoon bowl with long handle. The handle has a raised design located just off centre. It is carved with twisted grooves around the handle with some of the ridges carved out in sections to form raised bumps. T

Roundish spoon bowl with long handle. Just below the bowl the handle splits into four pillars with a hollow space between. The end third of the handle is segmented by a slightly raised ridge and faceted sides

Roundish spoon bowl with long handle. The handle is divided in two with a cuff of wood with a pinched centre. The lower half of the handle is carved into a twisted barley sugar motif and ends with a rounded point.

Cylindrical vessel that is round at its base, narrows slightly at its waist and flares out slightly at its rim. It has three cylindrical legs that widen towards their base and two rectangular horizontal lugs with a hole drilled through one of them.

Knife consists of a metal blade and a carved ivory/bone upper handle. The sheath is made in two pieces - the front is ivory/bone and the back wood - bound together with telephone wire at top and bottom. The ivory finial is carved in the shape of a baboon standing on the back of an elephant. The front of the sheath has four zoomorphic creatures in arrow one behind the other from the smallest to the largest. The two larges figures appear to be warthogs.

Circular necklace with a variety of beads - most spotted, some pain and one with stripes and two with wavy lines. A variety of objects are attached to the necklace that include animal teeth and claws

Standing male figure with large head and very spindly arms, tiny hands and fingers. The hips are configured as a horizontally positioned U from inside which the torso rises. The thighs are a continuation from the hip line and then bend at 90° to form knees and lower legs which end in two toeless feet. The head has a thick neck a small rectangular flat beard, a pencil moustache and a bulging forehead. The front of the torso is covered with pokerwork X s.

Staff with its finial in the shape of a hand holding an egg. A short way below the shaft becomes a is series of columns that have a hollow space within.

Cylindrical figure wrapped in string with vertical ribs. It has a mop of dreadlocks and matted hair decorated with strings of beads, beads and amulets and some blond hair? Its lower section is wrapped with a cloth skirt.

Cylindrical figure wrapped in string with vertical ribs. It has a mop of dreadlocks decorated with strings of beads and a headpiece with beads, with a shell hanging from the front. It has two loops of beads that cross in front and wrap around the breasts. Its lower section is wrapped with a patterned cloth skirt.

Axe with slightly bowed handle ending in a rounded finial flattened at the sides. The finial is in the shape of a human head - it has large blank eyes, two holes for nostrils and a groove for a mouth. From below the mouth narrow rod emerges flaring out into an axe head. The narrow end of the rod projects slightly out of the back of the head. Geometric patterns can be seen engraved on the axe blade.

Axe with slightly bowed handle ending in a ovoid finial. . From the centre of the finial a flattened rectangle of metal emerges that flares out into an axe head rounded at its end. There are engraved designs on the flat rectangular piece.

Necklace made of imitation claws carved from bone arranged to alternate with beads threaded at two (one above the other) between the 'claws. All beads are red except for three black and white ones in the front.

Carved wooden mask in the shape of a womans face. She has a mop of hair that hangs down behind her head and a cloth around her neck. Her face is painted blue

Carved wooden mask in the shape of a goat-devil with red horns and an open mouth with his tongue visible. Its neck and back of head is covered with fabric