iziko social history collections: one hundred highlights from the social history collections


	one hundred highlights from the social history collections
	This selection of 100 objects is only a very small proportion of the hundreds of thousands of objects in the Social History Collections Department. It showcases objects of iconic national significance and of historical and cultural interest. The selection reflects the wide range of objects in the Department. It also illustrates the interests of current staff and their personal responses to the privilege of working with collections that have been shaped for more than 150 years. A is for Amphora, Red-Line Painter, Athens, c. 500 BCE. Armchair, unidentified wood, Dutch or English, late 17th century Armchair, East Indian ebony, Jakarta in Indonesia (Batavia), late 17th century B is for Bag, skin, glass beads, southern Namibia, mid to late 19th century Basket, plant materials, Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, 1978 Beacon, stone, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, 1778 Beads, Blombos Cave, Stilbaai, Western Cape, dating back to 77 000 years ago Beadwork, Eastern Cape, mid-19th century Beaker, silver, by John Townsend, Cape Town, 1826 Bed, four-poster, teak and stinkwood, Cape, c. 1800 Bell, slave, bronze, Oranjezicht farm, Cape Town, c. 1775 Bone, Cape gannet, decorated, from Robberg, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, Later Stone Age Bone, Cape gannet, decorated, Byeneskranskop, Western Cape, Later Stone Age Bone tools, Blombos Cave, Stilbaai, Western Cape, dating back to more than 70 000 years ago Bowl, glass, by Shirley Cloete, Somerset West, Western Cape, 1988 Bowl, Longquan or Southern Celadon ware bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279) Bureau, stinkwood, Cape, 1770 C is for Cabinet, stinkwood, beefwood, Cape, late 18th century Cap, baby, cotton, Cape, c. 1838 Cap, goatskin, Eastern Cape, 1950s Certificate, registry of birth at the Slave Registry Office in Cape Town, of a female infant named Sophie whose mother Sophie was then about 30 years old, 9 January 1827 Chair, side, ebony and cane, black, probably Indian, Coast of Coromandel, late 17th / early 18th century Chair, easy, plywood, steel, wool upholstery, yellow and silver Chest, teak, Dutch East Indian, 18th century Clock, long case, teak, by A Spolander, Cape Town, 1856 Clock, mantle, bronze and gilt-bronze, French, c. 1800 Cloth, cotton, Zoutpansberg, Limpopo, 1860s Cloth, ikat, probably from the island of Timor in the Indonesian archipelago Cloth, ikat, Aceh region of Sumatra, Indonesia Cloth, ikat, probably from the east of Flores, an island in the Indonesian archipelago Coin, Koban, gold, Japan, 1819-30 D is for Decanter, glass, Dutch, c. 1700 Dish, porcelain, Chinese Song dynasty (960-1279) Doll, automaton, mandolin player, maker unknown Doll, boy, felt body, by the Lenci firm, c. 1931 E is for Egg, ostrich, decorated, Grootdrink farm, between Upington and Prieska, Northern Cape F is for Flask, ostrich eggshell, Namibia Figurine, tomb, low-fired lead-glazed earthenware Chinese Tang dynasty (618-906) Figurines, geese, walrus ivory, Alaska, c. 1940 Flag, bunting, 1863 G is for Glass, boot, English, late 18th century Glass, sculpture, by David Reade, Worcester, Western Cape, 1990 H is for Hydria, Red-figure pottery. Athens, early 4th century BCE I is for Inkstand, silver, probably Tobias Rogiers, Cape Town, c. 1750 K is for Kaparrings, Cape, 19th / 20th century L is for Lithograph, hand coloured and tinted, by Major Johann Christoph Alberti (1768-1812), 1803 Lock, wood, metal, Kassa village, Mali, West Africa, 1986 M is for Marionettes, by Estelle van der Merwe, 1930s Mask, Nuu-cha-nulth, north-west coast of Canada Medal, silver, 1702 Medal, silver, Cape Town, 1878 Money, tukula block, Kuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo Money, cowries / cowry shells, West Africa, 19th century N is for Norimono, lacquered and painted wood, textile, Japanese, 18th century O is for Oar, The Cape of Good Hope Vice-Admiralty, silver, by William Frisbee, London, 1806 Ochre, engraved, Blombos Cave, Stilbaai, Western Cape, dating back to 77 000 years ago P is for Painting, grisaille, oil on panel, probably by Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-93), c. 1636 Painting, oil on canvas, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (Haarlem c. 1566-1640) Painting, oil on canvas, by Aernout Smit, Dutch (1641-1710), 1683 Painting, oil on panel, by Jan de Bray (also spelt Braij) (Haarlem, c. 1627-97), Dutch, 1662 Painting, watercolour, by Lieutenant William Vernon Guise, 1835-39 Painting, coloured aquatint, by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811), 1831 Painting, watercolour, by Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-48), c. 1836 Painting, watercolour, by Charles Davidson Bell (1813-82), 1850 Painting, oil, by Gregoire Boonzaier (1909-2005), Cape Town, 1945 Photograph, by Commodore Frank Hornibrooke, Cape Town, 1860 Pipe, Eastern Cape Pipe, smoking, iron, Cape Town Plane, bead moulding, beechwood, by Thomas & Stephen Ponder, Fish St Plate, porcelain, Japanese, second half 17th century Point, bifacial, Blombos Cave, Stilbaai, Western Cape, dating back to 70 000 years ago Pot, Khoekhoe, Western Cape R is for Rock art painting, Linton panel, Maclear District, Eastern Cape Rock art reproduction, watercolour on paper, by the geologist and ethnologist George William Stow (1822-82) S is for Sampler in mainly cross-stitch, embroidered by Julia Bisset in 1809 Scrimshaw, whalebone, place of origin unknown, 19th century Seal, wax impression, of the seal of the Registrar of Slaves and Deeds, Cape Town, 1816-1838 Sedan chair, late 18th / early 19th century Skirt, goatskin, Griqua, Langberg, Northern Cape, 1911 Snuff-box, gourd, KwaZulu-Natal, mid 19th century Snuff-box, Eastern Cape The SAS Somerset Statuette, terracotta, Egyptian goddess Isis Stone, Coldstream, near the Lottering River, Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park, Western Cape Stick, wood, Andara, Kavango, Namibia, 1936 Stone, bored, Great Zimbabwe, Masvingo, Zimbabwe 13th to 15th centuries Stone, postal Stone, postal Stone, postal Stone, postal T is for Tea set, silver gilt and enamel, mother-of-pearl, Russian, 19th century Tile, tin-glazed earthenware, by Hugo Brouwer, Delft, Dutch, 1772 Token, copper, Middlesex, late 18th century. Token, aluminium, Premier Mines, De Beers, Witwatersrand, 1910-39 Toy, wire, tin, pine cone, and silver and red paint, by Sandisile Matya, a 16-year-old Xhosa boy, Cradock, Eastern Cape, 1988 V is for Vase, porcelain decorated in famille rose enamels, Chinese, 1736-1795 (Qianlong period) Vase, silver, attributed to Lawrence Twentyman, Cape, c. 1829 Vase, silver, by Willem Godfried Lotter, Cape Town, c. 1826 W is for Waistcoat, fragments, silk brocade, late 18th century Wine jar, maiolica, tin-glazed earthenware, Italian, 1620-1630