Context (Acquisition Details)
(Bio): 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 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Male garment with coloured beads. The edge of the garment has beads in blue, pink, white red and black and three V-shaped decorations at the bottom end of the garment.
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)
Woven cotton or linen male garment, light brown in appearance, with a three-row border along three edges of varying pink, black, blue, yellow, white and red annular glass beads. There are three chevrons of white, red and black glass beads along the short edge with a bead border. There is visible historic staining.
Event Date 9/2/2023
Author: Jane Pettitt