Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1979-1988
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Ndebele
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Ipepetu)
Ndebele, 1979-1988
Physical Qualities
Canvas, glass beads (white, black, green, olive green, orange, purple, blue, and yellow; translucent purple, blue, turquoise, and yellow), cotton thread, 13 9/16 × 16 15/16 in. (34.4 × 43 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.364
Top has house designs in white on canvas ground with 2 central strips of black squares connected by smaller black squares and diagonal lines; squares and lines filled with green and orange. 4 rectangles 2 white, one blue, one purple link the 2 colored strips. Above house designs is white band with 4 black rectangles each with color center. Bottom half is blocks of color outlined in black and separated by white. Color blocks are in form of rectangles and triangles. Side edge at top is outlined in yellow on one side, green on other side, and white on lower edge. Bottom edge is white with purple, green, black rectangle. 3 rows of white beads with some colored strands extends from the bottom and 3/4 of the way up the sides.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
