Description (Labels & Markings)
Half of an original, handwritten label is attached, reading: 'Mashona. Needle [missing] for [missing] Roo [illegible]'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Other owners)
Miss Joyce Baker is the daughter of Reverend H.J. Baker who was a Methodist missionary to the Mashona tribe, in the early twentieth century, (1904-1919), in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Event Date 1919
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Needle for textiles. Large wooden needle with a hole at the top through which natural fibres are looped.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 'Methodist Who's Who' (n.d. ?1912/1913) notes Rev. H. J. Baker as Herbert John Baker, a pioneer missionary in Rhodesia, who worked at the Matabeleland Gold Mines, as Master of the Public School, Selukwe and then in Mashonaland.
The material was all identified as Mashona on entry to the Museum but may also have been been acquired in Matabeleland or Selukwe, now known as Shurugwi.
Event Date 15/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Large wooden needle with an oval perforation near one end, through which two pieces of natural plant fibre are threaded. The needle has a triangular head, a shaft with an oval cross section, and a short tapered point.
Event Date 2/2/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad