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[ Source of title : FHYA using KZNM materials ]

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KZNM metadata

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2016, using KwaZulu Natal Museum Catalogue Card:
Provenance: Natal
Function: need for work to make head ring (isicoco)
Raw materials: Scale insect on stick
Comments: The insects are pressed into a ball and heated in a pan mixed with sap from roots of the umbodiya, a small plant found near rivers. The scale (pto)...]

Additional information

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, transcription of KwaZulu-Natal Museum object detail catalogue material:
Collection: Anthropology
Accession #: 00585
Othername: Material for manufacture of isicoco
Received as: Presented
Received date: 1906
Catalogued by: Jeremiah Cullingworth
Source: Franz Mayr
Description: Accessions Register (Ethnology Book 1): "Scale insect used for making the black wax-like ring of the (Isicoco[underlined]). The scale insects are pressed into a ball + heated on a pan over a fire mixed with sap from (Um-Bodiya[underlined]) roots (a small plant by rivers). The scale insect occurs on the shrub (Upandhlazi[underlined] or Umzungulu[underlined]) (Dalbergia obovata (?). Sticky base (Ungiyane[underlined])".
People: Mayr, Franz
Material: scale insect
Provenance: Natal]

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