Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1933-1999
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Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1933-1999
Physical Qualities
Canvas, goatskin, glass beads (black, white, royal blue, translucent navy and turquoise blue, green, and purple), cotton thread, 13 3/16 x 15 13/16 in. (33.5 x 40.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.358
From top: row of white beads containing 4 black rhomboids, 2 with green centers and 2 with royal blue centers. Row with canvas ground white rectangles, 2 opposed triangles, one green, one purple, outlined in black with 2 rows of black beads between apexes, 3/4 of apron taken up with house design in black with color details. Bottom band of white beads. Apron outlined on edges with royal blue and on bottom edge with black and translucent turquoise.
Collected in South Africa by the donor in the early 1980's
Inscribed: Yellow sticker saying Product of (?)Ndebele Southern Africa in black. White sticker with black X in pen over the yellow sticker.
