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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, green, pink, blue, and navy blue; translucent yellow, and green) goatskin, cotton thread, 19 11/16 × 4 5/16 in. (50 × 11 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.377
Strip has been sewn to goatskin thong, white ground, rectangle on either side of house designs. R. rectangle is green outlined in black, L. is royal blue with black on 3 sides.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.

Culture

Ndebele

2000–2000

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