Ornament, object missing in museum

Ornament, object missing in museum

[ Source of title : FHYA using KZNM materials ]

Object

Textual record

33A

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KZNM metadata [Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2016, using KwaZulu Natal Museum Catalogue Card: Name: Ornament (2) Catalogue No. 33 A,B Card No. 7/e/1 Provenance: Natal Maker/source: don Function: head ornament Raw Materials: wool, cloth]

Additional information [Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, transcription of KwaZulu-Natal Museum object detail catalogue material: Collection: Anthropology Accession #: 00033 Othername: head ornament Received as: Unknown Catalogued by: Frederick W. Fitzsimons Source: Franz Mayr Description: Accessions Register (Ethnology Book 1): "Coloured wool head ornament." People: Mayr, Franz Material: Wool, cloth Provenance: Accessions register: Locality: "Natal".]

Additional information [Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, transcription of KwaZulu-Natal Museum database extracts: J. Wintjes (22/11/2019): This accession forms part of the first batch of items written into the Accessions Register by F. W. Fitzsimons around the time the museum officially opened in 1904. These items aren't all dated, and if they are dated they aren't listed in chronological order of acquisition (pp.0-28 of 'Ethnology Book 1'). This accession is undated and could therefore have been received into the collection somewhere between 1890 (when Mayr arrived in Natal) and 1904. The earliest date I have so far seen for a Mayr item in the collection is 1897. A note in a document written by Kathleen Mack (I think) in 1989, pasted at the front of the Accessions Register (Ethnology Book 1), indicates that the museum director Dr Warren may have given purchasing authority to people like Mayr, who was the source of a large number of items. This Accession has been selected as part of the Mayr series by the Five-Hundred Year Archive. Accession #]

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Ornament, object missing in museum