Xikhigelo archive file
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Xikhigelo archive file
[ Source of title : Nessa Leibhammer using JAG materials ]
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JAG 1987-3-96
Description [Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2022, using spreadsheet created by Nessa Leibhammer for SAHRIS, from JAG materials in 2015: Object description: Rectangular crossbar curved and decorated near narrow ends with a row of zigzags carved in relief. A wide strip has broken off the length of the front. Lugs are roughtly square blocks. Two short rectangular pillars, curving inward at centre, rest on a flat horizontal rectangle which is decorated on the front and back edges with incised rectangles. This in turn rests on three short roughly rectangular pillars. The outer pillars widen at the base and the inner pillar is decorated front and back with four rounded horizontal pleats. The base is two flat circles linked by a triangle at front and back. All edges flare outwards towards the ground. 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.]
Event Actor | Event Type | Event Date | Event Description |
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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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