Apron Item Number: 2790/7 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 multicoloured beads, and edged with a row of brass rings above which is stitched a band of white beadwork. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with a green, pink, blue. black, orange, purple and yellow house design in the centre and coloured motifs in each 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
- 2790/7
- Type of Item
- apron
- Material
- cotton fibre, animal skin and glass
- Overall
- height 53.0 cm, width 69.0 cm, depth 4.7 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
- 2790/0007