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Pendants for a Woman’s Headband (Milingakobe)

Ndebele, 1933-1999

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Ndebele

Pendants for a Woman’s Headband (Milingakobe)

Ndebele

Pendants for a Woman’s Headband (Milingakobe)

Ndebele, 1933-1999

Physical Qualities Glass beads (black, white, royal blue, green, purple, maroon, blue, dark green, and light green, translucent light blue, orange, green, yellow, turquoise, dark green, and clear), goatskin, cotton thread, 128 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (327 × 6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.375
2 long strands of blue with black at the end, 3 long strands of white. Beaded 'tears' have black rectangles with colored 'X' s, zig-zags, bands, triangles, diamonds. Letters in black and colors on white ground. Woven beads at bottom of 'tears', royal blue on one 'tear', black on the other.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.

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2000–2000

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