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Beaded gourd (Serorona)

Ndebele, 1933-1999

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Ndebele

Beaded gourd (Serorona)

Ndebele, 1933-1999

Physical Qualities Gourd, glass beads (black, white, royal blue, purple, green, blue, and yellow; translucent turquoise), cotton thread, 8 1/16 × 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 in. (20.5 × 15 × 12 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.386
Gourd with hole cut out of one side. Gourd is covered with netting of beads. White band around side and bottom has 'letters' in colors and black.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.

Culture

Ndebele

2000–2000

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