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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded Panel (ithemba)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Beaded Panel (ithemba)

Artist Mrs. Kangezile MaMajoli Ndlovu (Zulu, South African)
Date1850-1968
Made/manufacturedSouth Africa
MediumGlass beads
ClassificationsClothing and accessories
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Dr. Frank Jolles
Object number2007.27.3
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionOrange panel with white letters, long chain-style necklace made of beads; message: "SIKHUZA USUTHU MAZULU"; not easily translated literally, expresses joy and love, "Hurrah, I like you". Probably in celebration for birth of child. See Jolles: 2006, p.128-29.


Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded Panel (ithemba)
Mrs. Kangezile MaMajoli Ndlovu
1850-1968
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded Panel (ithemba)
Mrs. Kangezile MaMajoli Ndlovu
1850-1968
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded Panel (ithemba)
Mrs. Kangezile MaMajoli Ndlovu
1850-1968
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded panel (ithemba)
Mrs. Kangezile MaMajoli Ndlovu
1850-1968
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded panel (ithemba)
Mrs. Kangezile MaMajoli Ndlovu
1850-1968
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded panel (isibebe)
Zandile Ma Ndlovu Dube
undated
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded panel (isibebe)
Zandile Ma Ndlovu Dube
1969
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded Panel (isebebe)
Zandile Ma Ndlovu Dube
1969
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Archaistic Bell
China
Song Dynasty (960-1279) or later
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Beaded panel (isibebe)
Zulu Artist
undated
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
"Study of a Mango"
Mrs. William Moore
undated
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Letter to Frank H. Taylor
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
1901

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