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Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)

Ndebele, 1954-1959

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Ndebele

Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)

Ndebele, 1954-1959

Physical Qualities Canvas, goatskin, glass beads (white, blue, royal blue, yellow, pink, black, and green; translucent yellow, green, and clear), cotton thread, 13 1/2 × 16 3/4 in. (34.3 × 42.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.363
Top is not beaded, top half has design of white rectangles on canvas ground. Bottom has house design in colors on white ground. Bottom edges has blue, black, pink, black, blue outline.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.

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