Description (Labels & Markings)
There are the remains of a historic label attached to the garment. No text survives in-situ.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Labels & Markings)
Loose metal beads were previously stored in a plastic poly-pocket with a label reading : "16. / Male / Garment / Metal Beads".
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

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 metal beads. Many of the beads have become detached from the cloth and show traces of green oxidation.
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 male garment, light brown in appearance, with two straps. There is a three-row border of metal annular beads running along three edges, and two rows of three centrally sewn areas of beadwork. There is evidence of historic damage and staining; the central bead attachments, aside from one bead, are all detached but present.
Event Date 9/2/2023
Author: Jane Pettitt