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Cape (Itete)

Zulu, 1933-1966

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Zulu

Cape (Itete)

Zulu, 1933-1966

Physical Qualities Wool, beads, 25 3/4 × 34 1/16 in. (65.4 × 86.5 cm.)
Credit Line Purchased in Honor of Frederick Lamp, Curator, Arts of Africa, Asia, The Americas, and Oceania, 1981-2003, with funds contributed by his Colleagues and Friends
Object Number 2004.175
The dark blue cloth surface is covered overall with white beads arranged in horizontal rows; there is a rectangular (flag?) shape in the center made up of wide bands of green, black, blue and red beads.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2004; Marie-Claude and Eric McKie, Baltimore, by purchase from The Collector, Cape Town, South Africa, in the late 1980s

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