. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . haping: placing of coil (Fig. 2D). Shape: conical. Edge: no edging. Finishing: ends sewn in. Decoration: none. Ornamentation: none. Tools Not known. Materials Foundation: grass; incaluka (Iridaceae).Sewing: two-ply cord of twisted sedge. Makers Not known. RecordsEarly: Nil. Recent: US Xho. 45, Xhosa. Liverpool , survey: Nil. 3. ingobozi. general. Also named umnyazi: Xhosa, Bomvana, Mpondo, Xesibe, Bhaca,Vundla; unyati: Bhaca. (Fig. 6A-D). This is a soft, flanging basket which was usedparticularl
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . haping: placing of coil (Fig. 2D). Shape: conical. Edge: no edging. Finishing: ends sewn in. Decoration: none. Ornamentation: none. Tools Not known. Materials Foundation: grass; incaluka (Iridaceae).Sewing: two-ply cord of twisted sedge. Makers Not known. RecordsEarly: Nil. Recent: US Xho. 45, Xhosa. Liverpool , survey: Nil. 3. ingobozi. general. Also named umnyazi: Xhosa, Bomvana, Mpondo, Xesibe, Bhaca,Vundla; unyati: Bhaca. (Fig. 6A-D). This is a soft, flanging basket which was usedparticularly for carrying produce from the fields. The largest might hold up to 22 kg(Hunter 1936: 85). It was also used for winnowing, when the grain was poured from onebasket, held high in the breeze, to another on the ground. It was most often woven in adistinctive split-warp twined weave which is not found elsewhere in southern Africa,except among the Ndzundza of Mpumalanga Province. This is the style of garden basket 16 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM ffi^^Y^u^ Figure 4A ?mm. MM: Figure 4B BASKETWORK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 17 J iityjj .; 49 Figure 4C Figure 4. Late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century baskets ofXhosa and Thembu. A. Basket, Kaffrer (Xhosa), near the SundaysRiver, collected by Sparrman, 1775. Coiled,grass foundation, furcate sewing with splitsedge. Height 205 mm. Stockholm B. Narrow-necked basket for holding (Xhosa), purchased c. 1891. Grassfoundation, corded sedge sewing. Height275 mm. PR, no number. C. Basket for keeping of milk, Thembu, possiblynear Cradock, collected H. M. Naestead,1852-57. Coiled, furcate sewing with sedgeover sedge. Height 164 mm. Copenhagen Gd 52. D. Basket of maize, Xhosa, Amatola Mountains,painting by Thomas Baines, sketch c. 1848,painting 1873. Iziko Museums of Cape Town,Art Collections Division (SANG 1291).
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