Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1959-1968
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Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1959-1968
Physical Qualities
Canvas, goatskin, glass beads (white, blue and royal blue, green, pink, orange, yellow, clear, red, translucent green, lime green), 14 15/16 x 18 1/2 in. (38 x 47 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.360
Top has design of pairs of white beads sewn in a line. Canvas ground decorated with white semi-circles, 2 nested triangles of white, black and pink, rectangles of white; black; green flanked by black. 2 white strips flank color design of triangles and rectangles outlined in black. Bottom has white ground with house design in colors. 3 edges of garment outlined in blue.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
