Xikhigelo archive file

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Xikhigelo archive file

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Xikhigelo archive file

[ Source of title : Nessa Leibhammer using JAG materials ]

Material Designation

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Photographic image

Institutional Identifier

JAG 1987-3-79

Descriptions and Notes

Description [Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2022, using spreadsheet created by Nessa Leibhammer for SAHRIS, from JAG materials in 2015: Object description: Recangular crossbar curved and decorated near the narrow ends with a row of small zig-zags carved in relief. Lugs are half cylinders running from front to back. Two roughly rectangular pillars with broader parts facing sides carved front and back into a series of horizontal rounded corrugations, alternately blackened. Two open front-facing arches extend out from almost the top to near the bottom of the outer sides. Inside the pillars are connected by five horizontal roughly cylindrical bars. Base is flat ovoid with a square piece cut out of centre front and back. Blackened. Object form type: Headrest; Object material type: Wood; Technique: Carved; Colours: Brown; Object age: late 19th/early 20th century; Production place: Transvaal (now Limpopo Province); Cultural association: Transvaal Tsonga; Place of use: Transvaal (now Limpopo Province); Provenance: Collected at Elim, Transvaal c1930.]

Events
Event Actor Event Type Event Date Event Description
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) Online curation 2022 - Digital image by Nessa Leibhammer
South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRIS) Digitisation c.2015
Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) Custody 1993 -
Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) Making 1993
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