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 (white, black, light yellow, blue, royal blue, pink, green, and purple; translucent yellow, green, red, navy blue, and turquoise), cotton thread, 13 9/16 × 16 5/8 in. (34.5 × 42.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.362
Top decorated with 2 rows black, one row purple, 2 rows black, one row turquoise, 2 rows black. Upper half decorated with white beads in bands with 2 small triangles and one strip of blue and black beads on canvas. Design is incomplete due to missing beads. Bottom half is house design in colors on white ground. Lower half of side edges and bottom edge outlined in royal blue, bottom edge also has white and black. Upper half of side edges has white outline.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
