Staff

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Staff

[ Source of title : FHYA using JAG materials ]

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Institutional Identifier

1992-11-5

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Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Descriptions and Notes

Description [Source - JAG accession registers and Horstmann catalogue published by JAG, 2015: JAG Description: Staff, Northern Nguni; Dimensions: 117 x 4,3 x 7 cm. Material: Wood]

Acquisition [Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using JAG materials, 2015: Acquired from: Horstmann purchased the object from Peter Miller a dealer in Cape Town who had possibly obtained it from the Maria-Stein Lessing collection after her death in 1961 (information provided by Horstmann 18 March 2008).]

Attributions and conjectures [Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017: Comments on classification: In his ‘A Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Tribes of South Africa’, Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Publications, Vol. 5, Pretoria, Government Printer, (1935): 7, 70-83, national government ethnologist, Nicholas Van Warmelo did not use the term “North Nguni”. He grouped people living both north and south of the Thukela, under one umbrella term, “Natal Nguni”, based on linguistic affinity. His classification was adapted by the ethnology curator, Margaret Shaw, in her 1958 “System of Cataloguing Ethnographic Material in Museums” which determined that items from the region were to be classified as “Natal Nguni: Zulu and others (not differentiated).” According to art historian, Anitra Nettleton, the classificatory system used by art galleries and museum shifted from Shaw’s model to the one where “Natal Nguni” fell away and was replaced by “North/Northern Nguni” for KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland because scholars found it difficult to distinguish items from adjacent areas, or emmigrant people from those from the KZN region. Scholars working with the JAG materials used broad ethno-linguistic categories (Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Shona, Sotho, Tswana) to identify the makers/users of the objects, all of which came to JAG without much by way of provenance, and identification was based on factors such as object type, materials, formal composition, style and surface patterning (emails A. Nettleton to N. Leibhammer, 25 and 28 November 2014).]

Events
Event Actor Event Type Event Date Event Description
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) Online curation 2016 - Digital image by Nessa Leibhammer
Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) Custody 1992 -
Udo Horstmann Collection [19-?]
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