Ndebele
Bridal Train in the Form of a Serpent (nyoga)
Ndebele, 1949-1958
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Ndebele
Bridal Train in the Form of a Serpent (nyoga)
Ndebele, 1949-1958
Physical Qualities
Glass beads (white, black, royal blue, blue, green, and pink; translucent orange, dark green, yellow, and red), cotton thread, 64 15/16 × 3 5/8 in. (165 × 9.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.373
Strap is woven white beads, few black and green beads at the start of the train. Train is white ground with letters, small rectangles, diagonal lines and strips in colors outlined in black. One blue strip not outlined. Edge of whole train is outlined in red on one side, blue on the other side and green on the bottom.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
Mountain, Alan, "Ndebele: Artist Nation," Capetown: Struik Publishers, c1995, pp 26-27.
