Ndebele
Married Woman’s Ceremonial Apron (Tshogholo)
Ndebele, 1969-1974
Scroll
Ndebele
Married Woman’s Ceremonial Apron (Tshogholo)
Ndebele, 1969-1974
Physical Qualities
Leather, beads, 28 9/16 × 21 7/16 in. (72.5 × 54.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Marie-Claude and Eric McKie, Baltimore, in Honor of Frederick Lamp, Curator, Arts of Africa, Asia, The Americas, and Oceania, 1981-2003
Object Number
2004.177
Apron with a wide horizontal blue band and a wide horizontal green band; five rounded flaps, three outlined with blue beads and two outlined with blue beads on the sides with white beads on the ends. A green "U" shape decorates one end flap, and a blue "U" shape decorates the other.
Opaque beads are light blue, dark blue, pink, purple, red, and green on a white ground with black outlines; translucent beads are yellow, green, pink, light blue, and clear.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2004; Marie-Claude and Eric McKie, Baltimore, by purchase in Johannesburg, South Africa, early 1980s
Adorned: African Women & the Art of Identity
