Milk Pail

Milk Pail

[ Source of title : FHYA using spreadsheet created by Nessa Leibhammer for SAHRIS from JAG materials. ]

Object

JAG 2012-6-36

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Description [Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2022, using spreadsheet created by Nessa Leibhammer for the South African Heritage Resources Information System (SAHRIS), from JAG materials in 2015: Object description: Cylindrical shape tapering towards the top and rounded at its base that is supported with an inverted truncated cone. . Has two rounded wedge shaped lugs on either side. The body is decorated with a raised band of amasumpa encircling it at 1/3 of the distance up its body. From this two arched of amasumpa designs raise to fill the space between the lugs. Two rectangular horizontal panels of raised of amasumpa are positioned in-between and above the top of the lugs. Object code: JAG 2012-6-36; Object form type: milk pail; Object local name: ; Object material type: wood; Technique: carving; Colours: Brown; Dimension comment: 45,8 x 17,4 x 14,5; Object age: 19th/20th century; Production place: KwaZulu-Natal; Cultural association: Northern Nguni; Place of use: KwaZulu-Natal; Provenance: KwaZulu.]

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 emigrant 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).]

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