Object Listing

Female figure kneeling and holding up a bowl on her head.

Upright, angular female figure with arms by sides and hands on belly. Her legs are slightly bent at the knee. The body has numerous pokerwork marks on it. Her mouth is open showing two rows of teeth. Her navel is a projecting cone

Standing figure (male? with arms down and hands held flat in front of hips. Has a head that has a horizontal aspect and is like a flat cone with a truncated end where the mouth is. It appears to look up. The right hand foot is broken off and the figure wears a rectangular beaded loin covering front and back that is linked by bead strings threaded through the space between teh arms and the torso.

Conical child figure with 9 beaded rings around body. Figure has two arms made from rolled textile that have five small beded rings on each. It has a round head that is beaded with eyes and mouth indicated in white and black beads.

Tall conical wooden figure sheathed in beadwork up to its neck with a mop of beaded fringes for hair with long strands and other beads attached. It has a hole in its face where a brass button was probably attached. It has multiple strands of string and beads looped around its body many of which are broken. There is a seed pod and some carve wooden beads suspended from these loops. It has an interlinking triangle/diamond design on its sheathing

Conical figure sheathed in beadwork with a mop of beaded fringes for hair with very long ones hanging down the sides and back. Some strings from the right hand side are missing. It has a brass button surrounded with beadwork for a face. There is a bunch of lucky bead seeds attached to the head. It has small strings of beads with five beaded fingers at the end. It has horizontal bands of beadwork with zigzag designs decorating its sheath.

Small conical wooden figure sheathed in beadwork up to its neck. It has a face that has been modelled (from leather?) with beads for hair, band, eyes and mouth. It has a vertical zigzag design and a small penis made of beads. It has one arm made from a metal chain with beads as fingers. It has a belt with a tiny front and back panel that propably originally was worn around the waist but has now been attached to the lower edge.

Cylindrical figure with a wool skirt and a multi-strand necklace/loop/handle attached to its top end. Bunches of beads and other beaded decorations are also attached. It has vertical triangular designs inset into panels.

Conical figure with rounded head with beads attached and two eyes and a nose in white and a red bead. This section id decorated in horizontal beaded rows. The lower end has a full beaded skirt attached. The underskirt is made of pink beads and the overskirt with lacy beadwork iin linear designs. It has a beaded string attached on one side as and arm but the other side is no longer attached.

Cylindrical figure with a slightly wider head at the top with an abstracted face with 'roman' nose. It has projecting shapes as ears that have holes at the bottom. The right hand ear has a loop of beads as an earring. The culinder is sheathed with wrapped beadwork and it has five bead wrapped hoops at its base. It also wears a fringed skirt of beads with leather tassels at their ends. It has a small beaded apron with V shaped designs at the back of the base of the cylinder .

Small wooden rod wrapped with beadwork. It has a mop of reddened hair made from strings with beads threaded on. It has 2 loops of beaded strands that are attached togther at their ends with a button.

Small conical figure sheathed completely in beads except for a round face and head to which is attached a long mop of hair threaded through with beads and one metal stud. It also has a thick wool fringe worn as a skirt around the base.

Small conical figure sheathed completely in beads with a long mop of hair and a very long loop of beads with plastic charms attached

Little seated cylindrical figure with soft cloth legs and feet, tiny beaded arms, beading around its body and a face delineated by a few beads as mouth, nose and eyes.

Conical child figure with 4 beaded rings around body. Figure has two arms made from bead strings that have three small beded rings on each. It has a round head that is beaded with eyes indicated in white and black beads. It has a long beaded loop that hangs in front and some beaded chains draped over the body. There is also a tiny apron on a beaded loop around the lower section of the body.

Little standing cylindrical figure with beaded legs, beaded arms, beading around its body and a face delineated by a few beads as mouth, nose and eyes. She has a tall beaded topknot and stands on a round flat base

Tall conical wooden figure sheathed in beadwork with bands of zigzag designs to just below its neck. The area from the top of this beadwork until the just under the chin has been wrapped around with a string of beads. It has a round bald head and a face.

Tall conical wooden figure sheathed in beadwork with bands of zigzag designs to just below its head. The neck area has additional rings of larger beads. It has a round head with short strings of beads for hair and the face has some damage. There figure is divided into vertical panels of abstract geometric designs.

Conical figure sheathed in beadwork to just below its head. It has a round head with beads for hair, a fabric face and eye made from beads. The figure is divided into horizontal panels of triangular and diamond-shaped designs. There are extra loops of beads around its base

Conical figure with a rounded base sheathed in a wrapped string beadwork (alternating small blue and big white beads) to just below its head. Its head is the round end of the form and it has a small face indicated with beads and hair of black beads. It looks very much like a 'mielie.'

Cylindrical figure sheathed in beadwork with a pleated skirt around its base. Bunches of beads with a coin in each delineate earrings. She has a waistband of 2 strings of plastic beads. Her head is encrusted with thickly layers strings of beads all attached and a button in the centre

Cylindrical figure with a reddened mop of hair fixed to the top of the ehad with a long nail. The body is sheathed in grass rings paited and twisted in a variety of designs. There are also rings of beads around the body and two beaded straps of leather on either side as arms. One leather ring with buttons sewn on wrap around the bas to which small rectangular hide panels front and back are attached. These represent front and back coverings

Dumbbell'-shaped figure with two round carved ends and a central shaft that is wrapped in beadwork. It has some tassels hanging from one end of the bead wrap. The central shaft swells slightly in the centre.

Cylindrical object with three spherical sections - at either end and in the middle. The object is covered in macerated plant material and has a string of beads around each narrow section between the wider regions. The top of the head has some lucky bead seeds stuck into it.

Cylindrical object with spherical end. It is covered in macerated plant material and has a sleeve of fabric wrapped around most of it body. The top of the head has some patches of white and red seeds stuck into it with some missing.

Conical child figure with 6 beaded rings around body. Figure has arms made from a long loop of beads strings that has 12 small beaded rings threaded onto it. It has a round head that is beaded with eyes and mouth indicated in white and black beads.

Figure made from trilobal palm fruit. It has multiple strings of beads wrapped arounf its 'neck' , two white beads for eyes, A tuft of string hair, leather panels front and back trimmed with beads that hang between the 'legs' from under the necklaces. There is a string loop attached.

Figure made from trilobal palm fruit. All three projections have been sheathed in beadwork. It has strings with beads attached as hair. Leather panels hang down front and back between the 'legs' from under the necklaces. These are trimmed and decorated with beads. There is a leather loop attached.

Tiny figure made from trilobal palm fruit. All three projections have been sheathed in beadwork. It has a few short strings of beads attached to the top of the head.

Standing felmale figure with a mop of long reddened hair with tear-drop shaped metal disks and a fringe. She has no eyes a small nose indicated and a mouth and chin. She wears two beads hanging from her ears. Around her neck are muliple strands of bead alternated with reed. Her breast are is uncoivered and she wears a leather front covering, a triangular front skirt and oval shaped back skirt. These are decorated with beads and cowrie shells. Her arms are held straight by her sides and has metal wound around just above the elbow. Her feet are triangular with no toes.