Ndebele
Adult Chest and Back Plates
Ndebele, 1933-1999
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Ndebele
Adult Chest and Back Plates
Ndebele, 1933-1999
Physical Qualities
Glass beads (white, black, royal blue, blue, pink, green, and maroon; translucent green, orange, yellow, and red), cotton thread, (doubled): 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm.)
pendants, each: 3 1/8 × 5 7/8 in. (8 × 15 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.384
2 chest pieces each with white ground one has house designs in colors outlined in black, the other has lower case 'b' and 'd' in colors outlined in black. Connecting beads are white bands with black and color bead at each end connected with 4 strands of beads black, color, black.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
