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Initiated Woman’s Back Skirt (Isithimba)

Ndebele, 1964

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Ndebele

Initiated Woman’s Back Skirt (Isithimba)

Ndebele

Initiated Woman’s Back Skirt (Isithimba)

Ndebele, 1964

Physical Qualities Goatskin, colored opaque glass beads, colored translucent glass beads, metal, pink and blue plastic beads, cloth, string, 28 3/4 × 31 1/2 in. (73 × 80 cm.) (With ties extended): 28 3/4 × 60 5/8 in. (73 × 154 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1990.203
stepped triangles and herringbone patterns
Adorned: African Women & the Art of Identity

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Ndebele

2000–2000

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