Ndebele
Married Woman’s Blanket Cape (Ngurara)
Ndebele, 1933
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Ndebele
Married Woman’s Blanket Cape (Ngurara)
Ndebele, 1933
Physical Qualities
Middelburg wool blanket, glass beads, string, 63 x 57 1/2 x 1 9/16 in. (160 x 146 x 4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Aaron and Joanie Young, Baltimore
Object Number
2002.631
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Aaron and Joanie Young, Baltimore, MD; purchased by the donor from a dealer of African objects in South Africa, near Soweto, in 1981.
African Reinstallation, "Colonialism & Independence," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
Frederick J. Lamp, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ndebele Beadwork: High Culture on the Run," Oct. 2, 1990 - Jan. 13, 1991.
Frederick J. Lamp, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ndebele Beadwork: High Culture on the Run," Oct. 2, 1990 - Jan. 13, 1991.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.48, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
"Adorned: African Women & The Art of Identity" BMA Today, no 162 (fall 2019): p 8.
Tribal Art, "Museum News: Adorned," 94, no.4 (2019): 48.
