Five Hundred Year Archive

Part of FHYA curation of a selection from the Anthropological Collection at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, transcription of KwaZulu-Natal Museum database extracts: Accessions Register (photocopy version of Ethnology Book 2): "Ama-Lala Grass Bag used for holding snuff box".]

Bag

Part of FHYA curation of a selection from the Anthropological Collection at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, transcription of KwaZulu-Natal Museum database extracts: Accessions Register (photocopy version of Ethnology Book 2): "Ama-Lala Grass Bag".]

Bag

Part of FHYA selection from the Anthropological Collection at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

Accession numbers

[Source: Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials, 2012: Cat ID: 107103; ID NO: Z 23596]

Attributions and conjectures

[Source - MAA, 2012:
Names: Bag - MAA (01/11/1998)
Classified:
Keyword: Containers; Basketry
Material: Grass; Basketry
Descriptions: Small woven grass bag with plaited handle. Very stiff, made so that the sides of the bag bulge out. Variation in the type of weave to produce pattern. Also a cross X on each side in a darker grass. La... - MAA (01/11/1998)
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Source: ?Bulwer, Henry
Source Date:
Place: Africa; Southern Africa; South Africa - MAA (01/11/1998)
Period:
Contexts: MAA (00/00/0000)
Updated: 03/12/2004
Created: 01/11/1998]

Baca girls - a) religious song b) extempore speech Sung by a Baca girl, spoken by two Baca girls, sound recording and associated items

Part of FHYA curation of selected materials from the Phonogrammarchiv at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018: File contains digital reproduction of audio extracted from CD2 of the "Series 10: The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908", originally recorded on wax cylinders and classified by OAW using Mayr's notes as "a) religious song b) extempore speech Sung by a Baca girl, spoken by two Baca girls"; digitized CD booklet; handwritten protocols, music notation, and lyrics transcript and translation, extracted from data CD]

BAAS trip info

Part of FHYA curation of selected materials pertinent to Alfred Cort Haddon’s trip with the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to South Africa in 1905, from the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at the Cambridge University Library

BAAS correspondence Rhodesia

Part of FHYA curation of selected materials pertinent to Alfred Cort Haddon’s trip with the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to South Africa in 1905, from the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at the Cambridge University Library

BAAS Address by Haddon

Part of FHYA curation of selected materials pertinent to Alfred Cort Haddon’s trip with the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to South Africa in 1905, from the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at the Cambridge University Library

BA correspondence with Natal and Newspaper Clippings

Part of FHYA curation of selected materials pertinent to Alfred Cort Haddon’s trip with the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to South Africa in 1905, from the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at the Cambridge University Library

Axe (view 2)

Part of FHYA selection from the Anthropological Collection at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

Axe

Part of FHYA selection from the Anthropological Collection at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

Article on 'Blackraces' of Transvaal and Orange Free State

Part of FHYA curation of selected materials pertinent to Alfred Cort Haddon’s trip with the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to South Africa in 1905, from the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at the Cambridge University Library

Art Gallery Committee Minute Book 1990-1993

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Part of FHYA curation of selected materials from the Traditional Collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery

[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2019, using JAG materials: Contains pages from an Art Gallery Committee Meeting dated 1992/04/02, in which the Acting Director discussed the Udo Horstmann collection of Southern African art which was for sale. The Committee unanimously supported the possible acquisition of the collection through the Anglo American Johannesburg Centenary Trust.]