Ndebele
Child’s Front Waist Garment or Cache-sexe (Ghabi)
Ndebele, 1979-1988
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Ndebele
Child’s Front Waist Garment or Cache-sexe (Ghabi)
Ndebele, 1979-1988
Physical Qualities
Colored opaque and translucent beads, leather, fiber, metal disk (tin or aluminum), 8 1/8 × 22 3/8 in. (20.6 × 56.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Marie-Claude and Eric McKie, Baltimore
Object Number
2005.27
Horizontal band of white beads with an inset pattern in green and black supports fringe of white beads and a front panel of blue, green, white and black beads arranged in a cross-pattern with a small metal disk and pink bead adorning the center. Small section of translucent purple beads in the front panel fringe.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2005; Marie-Claude and Eric McKie, Baltimore, MD
