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Ndebele

Female Figure (Umndwana)

Ndebele, mid 20th Century

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Ndebele

Female Figure (Umndwana)

Ndebele, mid 20th Century

Physical Qualities Grasses, glass beads (white, pink, green, orange, blue, royal blue, pearl, maroon, black, and purple; translucent green, yellow, red, light blue, royal blue, and purple), cotton thread, cloth, 9 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (24.5 × 12 × 8 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.387
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
Frederick J. Lamp, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ndebele Beadwork: High Culture on the Run," Oct. 2, 1990 - Jan. 13, 1991.

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