Ndebele
Bridal Train in the Form of a Serpent (nyoga)
Ndebele, 1933-1999
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Ndebele
Bridal Train in the Form of a Serpent (nyoga)
Ndebele, 1933-1999
Physical Qualities
Glass beads (white, royal blue, black, orange, pink, and yellow; translucent yellow, orange, and green), cotton thread, 65 9/16 × 2 3/4 in. (166.5 × 7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.374
Strap is braided strands of black, white and translucent orange. Train is white ground with letters, triangles, rectangles, bands, diagonal lines, 'V' in colors. Edge of train is outlined in royal blue pattern.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
Mountain, Alan, "Ndebele: Artist Nation," Capetown: Struik Publishers, c1995, pp 26-27.
