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Title: Xyplophone
Subject: Musical instruments--England--London
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs numbers: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: London (England), Creator: John Grey and Sons, altered by Percival R. Kirby
Identifier: islandora:20517

Title: Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards, Franschhoek
Subject: Swimming pools, Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards (Franschhoek, South Africa), Landscape architecture--South Africa--Franschhoek--Designs and plans, Farms--South Africa--Franschhoek,
Description: Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards, Franschhoek, Western Cape. New swimming pool. Plan and three sections., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27966

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Nooitgedacht 3, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of 2 therianthropes in red.
Identifier: islandora:21735

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20789

Title: Badplaas Mineral Baths, phase one
Subject: Planting plans, Equestrian centers--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Badplaas--Designs and plans, Gardens--South Africa--Badplaas--Designs and plans,
Description: Badplaas Mineral Baths, Badplaas, Mpumalanga. Working drawing: plant plan., Photographic copy of ammonia print of hand-drawn original (extract from portfolio).
Identifier: islandora:28133

Title: Figurine of a man playing lesiba
Subject: Sculpture--Lesotho
Description: Place of production: Morija (Lesotho), Creator: Samuel Makoanyane
Identifier: islandora:20707

Title: True board zither without resonator
Subject: Musical instruments
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 314.11 True board zithers without resonator, A. Height: 10mm (0.4in), Width: 130mm (5.1in), Length: 535mm (20.9in), B. Height: 13mm (0.4in), Width: 115mm (4.3in), Length: 460mm (18.1in)
Identifier: islandora:20220

Title: Wax cylinders in containers; cardboard box
Subject: Boxes--United States, Dictating machines--United States, Dictaphone Corp., Wax--United States
Description: Place of production: United States
Identifier: islandora:20040

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Tradouw Pass Cave, Swellendam, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Black markings that could be graffiti on a rock wall.
Identifier: islandora:21547

Title: Garden, Bishopscourt
Subject: Planting plans, Dwellings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: House, Bishopscourt, Cape Town. Planting plan for new swimming pool and terrace area., Blueprint (ammonia copy) of hand-drawn original.
Identifier: islandora:28106

Title: Udongwe
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Pondo (African people)--Music, Xhosa (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.221.11 (Single) flutes with internal duct without fingerholes, Length: 113mm (4.3in), Diameter: 11mm (0.4in), Place of production: Lusikisiki (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20110

Title: Garden, Bishopscourt
Subject: Swimming pools--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and construction, Gardens--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: House, Bishopscourt, Cape Town. Photographs showing construction of swimming pool.
Identifier: islandora:28107

Title: Newspaper vendor, Rosebank, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, Boys--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: His name was Sydney and he lived in Langa. Sydney told me he earned all the money which kept his paralysed grandmother, his sister and his brother going. He did not know where his parents were. This photograph was taken on a Saturday evening on Main Road, Rosebank, 1981. On the following Monday morning I read a filler in 'The Cape Times' which told of a black boy named Sydney who was selling newspapers in Rosebank and was run over by a car on Saturday evening. He died instantly, the report said. The next day I started searching for his grandmother's house in Langa. She cried when I gave her the photograph of her smiling grandson
Identifier: islandora:963

Title: Graduate's keyboard performance
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Arts--Study and teaching --South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A recent graduate of the full-time training course for cultural workers performs on the keyboard.
Identifier: islandora:29023

Title: Singqokwana Malgas, New Brighton township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Singqokwana Malgas was an African National Congress (ANC) veteran who had been imprisoned on Robben Island for fourteen years. While he was in prison, Malgas's house had been repeatedly firebombed and one of his sons had been killed. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) he described his ordeal of torture at the hands of the security police. Malgas told the TRC that he would like to tell his torturers, 'If we were only going to get freedom over our dead bodies, I'd like to make them aware we've got freedom.'
Identifier: islandora:796

Title: Oboe
Subject: Musical instruments--Germany-- Hannover
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 422.111.2 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds oboes, with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes, A. Length. 242mm (9.5 in.), Diameter: 35mm (1.2 in.), B. Length: 349mm (13.4 in.), Diameter: 69mm (2.4 in.), Place of production: Hannover (Germany), Creator: H. F. Meyer
Identifier: islandora:20576

Title: Crook for pocket cornet KG028, marked 'LAB', 'FA', 'MI', 'SOL' respectively
Subject: Musical instruments
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 423.22 Slide trumpets
Identifier: islandora:20352

Title: Mrs. Josephine Msweli, KwaSokhulu, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Josephine Msweli, Sappi Gum Tree forest, where her son, Simon, was murdered, 1997. Mrs. Msweli's family were African National Congress (ANC) sympathisers and were repeatedly attacked by members of Inkatha. Two of her sons were killed during separate attacks. She testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that her son Simon and his friend had been kidnapped and taken to the Sappi Gum Tree forest where they were killed. She said the boys had been abducted by members of the stability unit and the KwaZulu police. She wanted the perpetrators to come forward so that she could establish why they did what they did and so that she could give them a piece of her mind before she would forgive them.
Identifier: islandora:755

Title: Ūd with five courses
Subject: Musical instruments--Egypt--Cairo
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.321 Necked bowl lutes, Place of production: Cairo (Egypt), Date of creation: ca. 1850s, 'Short-necked, fretless lute with a pegbox set back at an angle, a bulging, pera-shaped body, and string soin double courses' (Randel 2003:931)
Identifier: islandora:20368

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