Ndebele
Miniature of a Chest and Back Plate
Ndebele, 1959-1968
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Ndebele
Miniature of a Chest and Back Plate
Ndebele, 1959-1968
Physical Qualities
Glass beads (white, royal blue, black, yellow; translucent green, red, yellow, orange), cotton thread, (doubled): 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm.)
pendants, each: 1 15/16 × 2 3/4 in. (5 × 7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.385a-b
2 chest pieces, both have white ground. One has 4 color diamond with royal blue line through it, red beads on top and blue on bottom of piece. The other has 4 'V's, 2 above green line and 2 below with points meeting on line. Piece has green beads on top and yellow on bottom. Connecting beads are bands of white beads with black and color bead at each end connected by 6 short strands of beads, black, color, black.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
