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Women’s Headband and Pendants (Milingakobe)

Ndebele, 1933-1999

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Ndebele

Women’s Headband and Pendants (Milingakobe)

Ndebele, 1933-1999

Physical Qualities Glass beads (white, black, purple, pink, royal blue, blue, and green; translucent red, orange, green, and yellow), cotton thread, 50 × 1 3/8 in. (127 × 3.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.379
Headband is made of blocks of white beads separated and surrounded by colored beads with 2 'tears' of white ground incorporating colored geometric designs attached to headband. Triangles sewn to bottom of tears.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.

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