Tribing and Untribing the ArchiveTribing and Untribing the Archive: Identity and the Material Record in Southern Kwazulu-Natal in the Late Independent and Colonial Periods

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Contents Preface Acknowledgements Orthographic and Name Notes Tribing and Untribing the Archive Section One: Mortified, Marooned, Mobilised Negotiating a South African Inheritance: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century ‘Traditional’ Collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery Shifting Contexts: Material, Process and Contemporary Art in Times of Change ‘(Re)discovering the Correct History’: Tradition and Custom, the Archival Record and Identity in Contemporary KwaZulu-Natal Section Two: Layered Landscapes, Segregated Spaces Archaeological Contexts and the Creation of Social Categories Before the Zulu Kingdom Making Identities in the Thukela-Mzimvubu Region c.1770–c.1940 The Tribal History Project, 1862–4 A.T. Bryant’s Map of the ‘Native Clans in Pre-Shakan Times’ The Historiography of the KwaMachi People: A Frontier Community between Zulu and Mpondo in the Nineteenth Century Re-tribe and Resist: The Ethnogenesis of a Creolised Raiding Band in Response to Colonisation ‘We of the White Men’s Country’: The Remaking of the Qadi Chiefdom, 1830s to1910 Tribing and Untribing the Archive Volume 2 Section Three: Significant (Mis)identifications Forging Identities in an Uncertain World: Changing Notions of Self and Other in Early Colonial Natal ‘A Paralysis of Perspective’: Image and Textin the Creation of an African Chief Auxiliary Modes of Collecting: Circulation and Curation of Photographs from the Mariannhill Mission in KwaZulu-Natal,1880s to 1914 Ethnologised Pasts and Their Archival Futures: Construing the Archive of Southern KwaZulu-Natal Pertinent to the Period Before 1910 The Natal Government Railways and Their Productions of ‘the Zulu’ Section Four: Archival Biographies ‘The Name of Zulu is Now Given’: Provenancing Objects from Colonial Natal in the British Museum’s Christy Collection Curiosity and Aesthetic Delight: The Snuff Spoon as Synecdoche in Some Nineteenth-Century Collections from Natal and the Zulu Kingdom ‘Knobkerrie’: Some Preliminary Notes on the Transformation of a Weapon into a Swagger Stick, or Sometimes a Stick is Not Just a Stick Using Zulu and Losing Zulu: How the Clem Webb Collection was Undone Epilogue We Need New Names Too Contributors Select Bibliography List of Illustrations Index