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[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using Wikipedia, 2017: Alice Werner was a writer, poet, and teacher of the ‘Bantu’ language. After visiting Nyasaland in 1893 and Natal in 1894, much of her writings focused on African themes. She was a professor of Swahili and Bantu languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of London. The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge acquired some ethnographic material from Werner. The FHYA selection of this material consists of objects from the FHYA target area of KwaZulu-Natal and immediately adjacent regions.]
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[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018: File contains an object identified by Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials as "strainer", an accession register page, a catalogue card, and an annual report page.]
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2012, using MAA materials: There were separate Ethnographical and Archaeological accession registers which ran concurrently from 1884 - 1917, with the ethnographic accessions numbered using the following format: ‘E’ and then ‘year accessioned’ followed by sequential numbering, e.g. E 1912.123. A single register was used from 1917 with no letter prefix, using the format of 'year accessioned' followed by sequential numbering. The Museum’s second curator Louis Clarke instigated a Z Register in January 1923, accessioning and entering objects that had not been recorded in the year of acquisition or that needed to be renumbered. These items were given Z numbers, using a ‘Z’ prefix and then sequential numbers, e.g. Z 1234. This numbering system for un-accessioned items found in the museum continued along side the normal accessioning procedure, using the relevant year of entry, until the late 1990s.]
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Accession numbers
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials, 2012: Cat ID: 109206; ID NO: E 1896.19; MAA num: A.R.1897.509]
Attributions and conjectures
[Source - MAA, 2012:
Names: Strainer - MAA (01/12/1998)
Classified:
Keyword: Food Preparation; Narcotics and Intoxicants
Material: Grass; Bead; Glass
Descriptions: Beer strainer, of grass, made by Natal native women. "Used in making utshwala or native beer of amabeli" (Werner). Ekukanyeni 1896.
'With blue beaded loop handle - Rachel Hand 12/12/2001' - MAA (01/12/1998)
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Maker:
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Date Made:
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Source: Werner Collection
Source Date: 1896
Place: Africa; Southern Africa; South Africa; Natal; Ekukanyeni - MAA (01/12/1998)
Period:
Contexts: ?(bio) (female source name): Miss Werner - MAA (01/12/1998)
Updated: 22/07/2008
Created: 01/12/1998]
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Accession numbers
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials, 2012: Cat ID: 109206; ID NO: E 1896.19; MAA num: A.R.1897.509]
Attributions and conjectures
[Source - MAA, 2012:
Names: Strainer - MAA (01/12/1998)
Classified:
Keyword: Food Preparation; Narcotics and Intoxicants
Material: Grass; Bead; Glass
Descriptions: Beer strainer, of grass, made by Natal native women. "Used in making utshwala or native beer of amabeli" (Werner). Ekukanyeni 1896.
'With blue beaded loop handle - Rachel Hand 12/12/2001' - MAA (01/12/1998)
Local:
Maker:
Cultural Group:
Author:
Date Made:
Dimensions:
Source: Werner Collection
Source Date: 1896
Place: Africa; Southern Africa; South Africa; Natal; Ekukanyeni - MAA (01/12/1998)
Period:
Contexts: ?(bio) (female source name): Miss Werner - MAA (01/12/1998)
Updated: 22/07/2008
Created: 01/12/1998]
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Additional title information
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials, 2012: MAA Acc. Reg. 16: 1896.13 - 19]
Published
[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2019: A selection of related pages from the relevant Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Accessions Register. The registers have been digitised but are not publicly available. For enquiries visit the MAA website: http://maa.cam.ac.uk/category/research/research-visits/]
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Additional title information
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials, 2012: MAA Ann Rep. 12: 509-510 Beer strainer and grass ropes for Ekukanyeni. Natal. The Curator]
Published
[Source - Rachel Hand for MAA, 2016: The Museum’s catalogue cards and labels are part of the institution' and the objects' very history. Catalogue cards were created to add additional object information from the very first accessions back in 1884 and replacement cards were made if the original was lost, usually using both different pens and terms. Original sale or collector labels could be stuck to the cards to add biographical layers of information in the same way that letters and later photographs were sometimes attached to cards. Staff and sometimes visitors would add comments on provenances, measurements and locations over time. Reconnecting an author with their annotations can add to our knowledge of the object’s history and associations. The era and author of the cards also is reflected in their physical aspects: initially details were handwritten in ink, the 1930s saw cards stamped and written on a typewriter, followed variously by handwritten details in ballpoint pen, finally moving to word-processed and laser printed texts.
Like the cards the physical type of paper and pen used can suggest dates as well as authors. They can be used to confirm the identity of misplaced objects, e.g. Henry Bulwer’s collection bears distinctive long, rectangular shaped paper labels and his cursive script.
Early labels were handwritten in ink, on small rectangular paper or parchment label and tied through small metal reinforced holes. Others were glued directly to the object. Smaller rectangular or square paper labels, with a printed outline, usually stuck directly to the object, usually originate in late nineteenth or early twentieth century salerooms or via a collector. Larger circular, metal-edged labels were written in the museum, probably from the 1970s onwards. The 1980s bought larger labels on thick yellow paper, and remained handwritten. From c.2000, we have used acid-free yellowish paper labels, that are written on in light-sensitive and waterproof ink.]
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Additional title information
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using MAA materials, 2012: MAA Ann Rep. 12: 509-510 Beer strainer and grass ropes for Ekukanyeni. Natal. The Curator]
Published
[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2019: A selection of related pages from the relevant Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Annual Report. The MAA has digistised all their annual reports and made them publicly available. For enquiries visit the MAA website: http://maa.cam.ac.uk/category/research/research-visits/]
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