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
Beadwork in two large panels separated by short strips with one narrow fringe at bottom on the end of reserve obverse. Designs in the form of letters and triangles with horizontal and vertical bands.
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.
