Healing instruments
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Title
Healing instruments
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SA College of Music
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Fine Art
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Centre for Curating the Archive
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Description
“I invited Edmund February to the Kirby collection to view the instruments and learn his thoughts on them from a botanical perspective. February identified the dancing rattles as being made of the seed pods of Oncoba spinosa (Venda: mutuzwa) and the seed pod of Adansonia digitata (Venda: muvhuyu). The wood of the iodophone was, however, unrecognisable as a result of its handling. February also contacted colleagues in the Department of Zoology and the School of Mathematical & Natural Sciences at the University of Venda, who connected me to a Venda diviner, Muanalo Dyer, who uses similar baobab rattles (and other materials from that tree) in her healing practices. This interdisciplinary engagement showed that these instruments, supposedly frozen in their early 20th century understanding of being on the brink of extinction, remained very much functional in the present” (Liebenberg 2021: 271).
Creator
Nina Liebenberg
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Date Created
2018
Source
Kirby Collection of Musical Instruments
SA College of Music, UCT
Chest: a botanical ecology
Resonances
medicine chest
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cabinet
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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South African Museum
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SA College of Music
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Percival Kirby
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healing
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Michael Nixon
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taxonomies
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instruments
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Edmund February
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KwaZulu Natal
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rattles
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display
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temperature
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classification
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comparison
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technology
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history
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Kirby Collection of Musical Instruments
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Type
Objects
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
