Ndebele
Beaded Panel for a Blanket Cape
Ndebele, 1933-1999
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Ndebele
Beaded Panel for a Blanket Cape
Ndebele, 1933-1999
Physical Qualities
Glass beads (white, black, royal blue, yellow, pink, green, light green, blue, maroon, and light blue; translucent green, blue, and clear), cotton thread, 12 11/16 × 2 5/8 in. (32.2 × 6.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.376
White ground, with 2 house design 'scenes' , one has green bottom, blue sides with 2 light blue triangular tabs on tops of houses, blue band with 2 triangles off it over houses. Other 'scene' has royal blue bottom with diamonds, sides are green and black stepped triangles. Royal blue and black inverted triangle over blue and black band between houses. Woven white border on entire strip.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
