Bracelet; Lesêka la Lenaka le Tlou
Item
Title
Bracelet; Lesêka la Lenaka le Tlou
Creator
Unrecorded
Subject
Body Adornment
Description
Physical Description: Ivory bangle with two grooves and a keel shape on outer surface. A crack has been joined with brass wire through four drilled holes.
Contextual Description: Leseka la lenaka la Tlou TS comments
Contextual Description: 01:46:11 [TN says] Big animals or animals with power, people always associate them with chiefs or leaders. Transcription by KL of MAC_BB_20190817_RPM3 SL Interview with Tshupo Ntono, Village Elder, Language: Setswana with English translations by SL, 2019
Contextual Description: SL 19:53
No it's a crack I think it's medical. That's what people will do. make your ... You saw some leatherwork in those pictures,
SL 20:04
It would appears like some decoration but it was meant to give something to it
SL 20:07
there was some opening in it and you make a similar opening on the the other side, now you have two
WT 20:17
they sew it, honestly, the calabash when it breaks they do a similar thing. These people are really good at conservation.
The above notes are from a transcription by Kathleen Lawther of a discussion between Gase Kediseng, JoAnn McGregor, Nicola Stylianou, Scobie Lekhuthile and Winani Thebele which took place at the Khama III Memorial Museum on the 5th of August 2019. To listen to the full recording please follow the link below.
No it's a crack I think it's medical. That's what people will do. make your ... You saw some leatherwork in those pictures,
SL 20:04
It would appears like some decoration but it was meant to give something to it
SL 20:07
there was some opening in it and you make a similar opening on the the other side, now you have two
WT 20:17
they sew it, honestly, the calabash when it breaks they do a similar thing. These people are really good at conservation.
The above notes are from a transcription by Kathleen Lawther of a discussion between Gase Kediseng, JoAnn McGregor, Nicola Stylianou, Scobie Lekhuthile and Winani Thebele which took place at the Khama III Memorial Museum on the 5th of August 2019. To listen to the full recording please follow the link below.
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
Pre 1899
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Whole: 76.2 mm
Ivory; Animal ivory
Identifier
R4007/36
Source
Collected by Reverend William Charles Willoughby, a Christian missionary, in what was then the Bechuanaland Protectorate (1885-1966). It is now the Republic of Botswana, having gained independence from Britain in 1966.
From 1889-92 Willoughby was pastor at Union Street Church, Brighton (now The Font pub). From 1893 to 1898 he worked for the London Missionary Society in Bechuanaland. He assembled this collection of objects during this period. This was a period of social and technological changes and these objects represent traditional lifestyles and skills, rather than the contemporary lives of the people Willoughby met.
Willoughby's collection was loaned to Brighton Museum in 1899 when he returned to the UK. The loan was converted into a donation in 1936, and accessioned as acquisition R4007.
Some objects were re-numbered with the WA (World Art) numbering system in the 2000s. These numbers have been reverted to the original R4007/... numbers where possible for consistency in 2019.
From 1889-92 Willoughby was pastor at Union Street Church, Brighton (now The Font pub). From 1893 to 1898 he worked for the London Missionary Society in Bechuanaland. He assembled this collection of objects during this period. This was a period of social and technological changes and these objects represent traditional lifestyles and skills, rather than the contemporary lives of the people Willoughby met.
Willoughby's collection was loaned to Brighton Museum in 1899 when he returned to the UK. The loan was converted into a donation in 1936, and accessioned as acquisition R4007.
Some objects were re-numbered with the WA (World Art) numbering system in the 2000s. These numbers have been reverted to the original R4007/... numbers where possible for consistency in 2019.
William Charles Willoughby
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
1893-1898
Space/Place
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Cultural Group: Tswana
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International