Context (Field collection)
This bracelet was purchased on 28 March 2000 from the Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.

This object was collected by Julia Tanner while undertaking fieldwork in South Africa from March-May 2000. The fieldwork was financed by MAA's Crowther-Beynon Fund, in order to research and update MAA's South African collections.
Event Date 28/3/2000
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
The proprietor [of the Montebello Design Centre], Nomfundo Mehlomakulu (of Seapoint, Cape Town) stated that the production of these safety-pin bracelets was instigated by calls for work from several unemployed women in Langa township, Cape Town. The maker of this particular bracelet, Titi Ndungane, was her sister-in-law. The safety pins are ordered from Johannesburg and the beads are acquired from a bead shop in Cape Town. This type of bracelet is found in many tourist shops, and varies in width according to the size of safety pin used. This is a medium-sized example and is particularly attractive. It was also the most expensive example of its kind found during fieldwork.
Event Date 2001
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Bracelet composed of safety-pins and beads. The safety pins are threaded through the heads and bases on two separate pieces of elastic, and are alternately threaded top to tail and back to front. The shafts of alternate pins are decorated with different beads. In the first instance, there is a pattern of small alternating blue and pink beads, and secondly a pattern of two small pink and two small blue beads either side of a large cylindrical plastic bead of white, blue and pink patches. The pins are tightly threaded together.
Event Date 5/5/2012
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Bracelet composed of safety-pins and beads, made by Titi Ndungane. The safety pins are threaded through the heads and bases on two separate pieces of elastic, and are alternately threaded top to tail and back to front. The shafts of alternate pins are decorated with different beads. In the first instance, there is a pattern of small alternating blue and pink glass beads, and secondly a pattern of a large, waisted cylindrical plastic bead of white, blue and pink patches, with a spherical wooden blue bead and a small pink bead on each side. The pins are tightly threaded together.
Event Date 12/1/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff