Apron Item Number: 2790/3 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. A blackened flap of skin at the waist is folded over a stiffer tie (skin or fibre?), stitched and coiled with white beads, and edged with a band of white and blue beadwork that has a hanging chain of red blue, yellow and white beads at the centre. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with green, pink, blue. black, orange and yellow house designs in the centre and on two of the panels.
History Of Use
The jocolo, or ijogolo, is typically shaped with four or five hanging panels, alluding to children. This type of apron is worn by married women who have borne children, to celebrate the fact.
Item History
- Made in South Africa
- Owned by Lawrence Feuchtwanger before March 3, 2010
- Received from Lawrence Feuchtwanger (Donor) on March 3, 2010
What
- Name
- Apron
- Identification Number
- 2790/3
- Type of Item
- apron
- Material
- cotton fibre, animal skin and glass
- Overall
- height 62.8 cm, width 51.0 cm, depth 2.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Ndebele
- Previous Owner
- Lawrence Feuchtwanger
- Received from
- Lawrence Feuchtwanger (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- South Africa
When
- Ownership Date
- before March 3, 2010
- Acquisition Date
- on March 3, 2010
Other
- Item Classes
- beadwork; textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2790/0003