Published
Nessa Leibhammer using JAG materials
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using JAG materials: File contains an object identified by Nessa Leibhammer using JAG materials as a 'staff' acquired by JAG from Udo Horstmann, as well as an archive file, and an accession register page.]
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using JAG materials, 2015: Accession number given by JAG on acquisition: 1992 indicates year of accession; 11 is the number of the specific batch in which this item was part; 1 is the item number of the objects in the batch. The illustration number of the item is in the catalogue The Horstmann Collection of Southern African Art published by the Johannesburg Art Gallery is 6]
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Description
[Source - JAG accession registers and Horstmann catalogue published by JAG, 2015: JAG Description: Staff, Northern Nguni; Dimensions: 117 x 4,3 x 7 cm. Material: Wood]
Acquisition
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using JAG materials, 2015: Acquired from: Horstmann purchased the object from Peter Miller a dealer in Cape Town who had possibly obtained it from the Maria-Stein Lessing collection after her death in 1961 (information provided by Horstmann 18 March 2008).]
Attributions and conjectures
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017: Comments on classification: In his ‘A Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Tribes of South Africa’, Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Publications, Vol. 5, Pretoria, Government Printer, (1935): 7, 70-83, national government ethnologist, Nicholas Van Warmelo did not use the term “North Nguni”. He grouped people living both north and south of the Thukela, under one umbrella term, “Natal Nguni”, based on linguistic affinity. His classification was adapted by the ethnology curator, Margaret Shaw, in her 1958 “System of Cataloguing Ethnographic Material in Museums” which determined that items from the region were to be classified as “Natal Nguni: Zulu and others (not differentiated).” According to art historian, Anitra Nettleton, the classificatory system used by art galleries and museum shifted from Shaw’s model to the one where “Natal Nguni” fell away and was replaced by “North/Northern Nguni” for KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland because scholars found it difficult to distinguish items from adjacent areas, or emmigrant people from those from the KZN region. Scholars working with the JAG materials used broad ethno-linguistic categories (Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Shona, Sotho, Tswana) to identify the makers/users of the objects, all of which came to JAG without much by way of provenance, and identification was based on factors such as object type, materials, formal composition, style and surface patterning (emails A. Nettleton to N. Leibhammer, 25 and 28 November 2014).]
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Description
[Source - JAG accession registers and Horstmann catalogue published by JAG, 2015: JAG Description: Staff, Northern Nguni; Dimensions: 117 x 4,3 x 7 cm. Material: Wood]
Acquisition
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA using JAG materials, 2015: Acquired from: Horstmann purchased the object from Peter Miller a dealer in Cape Town who had possibly obtained it from the Maria-Stein Lessing collection after her death in 1961 (information provided by Horstmann 18 March 2008).]
Attributions and conjectures
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017: Comments on classification: In his ‘A Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Tribes of South Africa’, Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Publications, Vol. 5, Pretoria, Government Printer, (1935): 7, 70-83, national government ethnologist, Nicholas Van Warmelo did not use the term “North Nguni”. He grouped people living both north and south of the Thukela, under one umbrella term, “Natal Nguni”, based on linguistic affinity. His classification was adapted by the ethnology curator, Margaret Shaw, in her 1958 “System of Cataloguing Ethnographic Material in Museums” which determined that items from the region were to be classified as “Natal Nguni: Zulu and others (not differentiated).” According to art historian, Anitra Nettleton, the classificatory system used by art galleries and museum shifted from Shaw’s model to the one where “Natal Nguni” fell away and was replaced by “North/Northern Nguni” for KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland because scholars found it difficult to distinguish items from adjacent areas, or emmigrant people from those from the KZN region. Scholars working with the JAG materials used broad ethno-linguistic categories (Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Shona, Sotho, Tswana) to identify the makers/users of the objects, all of which came to JAG without much by way of provenance, and identification was based on factors such as object type, materials, formal composition, style and surface patterning (emails A. Nettleton to N. Leibhammer, 25 and 28 November 2014).]
Published
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Attributions and conjectures
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017: Comments on classification: In his ‘A Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Tribes of South Africa’, Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Publications, Vol. 5, Pretoria, Government Printer, (1935): 7, 70-83, national government ethnologist, Nicholas Van Warmelo did not use the term “North Nguni”. He grouped people living both north and south of the Thukela, under one umbrella term, “Natal Nguni”, based on linguistic affinity. His classification was adapted by the ethnology curator, Margaret Shaw, in her 1958 “System of Cataloguing Ethnographic Material in Museums” which determined that items from the region were to be classified as “Natal Nguni: Zulu and others (not differentiated).” According to art historian, Anitra Nettleton, the classificatory system used by art galleries and museum shifted from Shaw’s model to the one where “Natal Nguni” fell away and was replaced by “North/Northern Nguni” for KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland because scholars found it difficult to distinguish items from adjacent areas, or emmigrant people from those from the KZN region. Scholars working with the JAG materials used broad ethno-linguistic categories (Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Shona, Sotho, Tswana) to identify the makers/users of the objects, all of which came to JAG without much by way of provenance, and identification was based on factors such as object type, materials, formal composition, style and surface patterning (emails A. Nettleton to N. Leibhammer, 25 and 28 November 2014).]
Published
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Attributions and conjectures
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017: Comments on classification: In his ‘A Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Tribes of South Africa’, Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Ethnological Publications, Vol. 5, Pretoria, Government Printer, (1935): 7, 70-83, national government ethnologist, Nicholas Van Warmelo did not use the term “North Nguni”. He grouped people living both north and south of the Thukela, under one umbrella term, “Natal Nguni”, based on linguistic affinity. His classification was adapted by the ethnology curator, Margaret Shaw, in her 1958 “System of Cataloguing Ethnographic Material in Museums” which determined that items from the region were to be classified as “Natal Nguni: Zulu and others (not differentiated).” According to art historian, Anitra Nettleton, the classificatory system used by art galleries and museum shifted from Shaw’s model to the one where “Natal Nguni” fell away and was replaced by “North/Northern Nguni” for KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland because scholars found it difficult to distinguish items from adjacent areas, or emmigrant people from those from the KZN region. Scholars working with the JAG materials used broad ethno-linguistic categories (Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Shona, Sotho, Tswana) to identify the makers/users of the objects, all of which came to JAG without much by way of provenance, and identification was based on factors such as object type, materials, formal composition, style and surface patterning (emails A. Nettleton to N. Leibhammer, 25 and 28 November 2014).]
Published
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Published
[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017, using JAG materials: Cover of 'Traditional Collection: Horstmann Collection: 14/6B Vol 1: Brodie Collection 14/6C Vol 1'. To view the full record click the link in the Associated materials field below.]
[Source - Carolyn Hamilton for FHYA, 2018: Nessa Leibhammer identified Johannesburg Art Gallery records pertinent to each of the items which she selected for the FHYA. These comprise her selection of extracts from accession registers, correspondence and other records. The FHYA reproduces these records in the form that she elected to assemble them. Researchers interested in the exact contexts from which she extracted these records can follow this up through the Johannesburg Art Gallery https://friendsofjag.org]
https://fhya.org/traditional-collection-horstmann-collection-14-6b-vol-1-brodie-collection-14-6c-vol-1
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Published
[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2019, using JAG materials: Spine of Art Gallery Committee Minute Book 1990-1993'. To view the full record click the link in the Associated materials field below.]
[Source - Carolyn Hamilton for FHYA, 2018: Nessa Leibhammer identified Johannesburg Art Gallery records pertinent to each of the items which she selected for the FHYA. These comprise her selection of extracts from accession registers, correspondence and other records. The FHYA reproduces these records in the form that she elected to assemble them. Researchers interested in the exact contexts from which she extracted these records can follow this up through the Johannesburg Art Gallery https://friendsofjag.org]
https://fhya.org/art-gallery-committee-minute-book
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