Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1949-1959
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Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1949-1959
Physical Qualities
Canvas, glass beads (white, blue and royal blue, black, pink, clear, translucent and solid green), cotton thread, 13 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (33.4 × 41 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.359
White ground, top not beaded, 2 'I's in white on canvas, separated by blue strip outlined on 2 long sides in black and flanked by white strips. House design in color on bottom portion of garment. Edge outlined in rows of blue beads.
Collected by donor in South Africa in the early 1980's
Adorned: African Women & the Art of Identity
Inscribed: Yellow sticker with 'Product of Kwendebele Southern Africa' in black on back of apron.
