id: 456947
accession number: 2022.49.a
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Royal ceremonial headdress (umnqwazi), 1800s. Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Southeast Cape Region, Unknown female Xhosa-style maker(s). Glass beads, sinew, and hide; overall: 64.1 x 27.6 cm (25 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2022.49.a
title: Royal ceremonial headdress (umnqwazi)
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creation date: 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1899
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creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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culture: Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Southeast Cape Region, Unknown female Xhosa-style maker(s)
technique: Glass beads, sinew, and hide
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 64.1 x 27.6 cm (25 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Peter Miller collection, Cape Town, SA (sold via Ashbey’s Galleries, Cape Town, late 1985 or early 1986)
date: ?–late 1985 or early 1986
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Lionel Finneran and Marion Philips collection, Cape Town, SA/New York 1986–1990
date: 1986–1990
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Philips Collection (by divorce), New York, NY 1990–1997
date: 1990–1997
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(Axis Gallery NY/NJ, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1997–2022
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2022–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Van Wyk, Gary. “Illuminated Signs. Style and Meaning in the Beadwork of the Xhosa- and Zulu-Speaking Peoples.” African Arts 36, no. 3 (2003): 12–94.
page number: 18
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337941
Pemberton, John. African Beaded Art: Power and Adornment. Northampton, Mass: Smith College Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: pp. 170–172
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