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Ndebele

Beaded Panel for a Blanket Cape

Ndebele, 1933-1999

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Ndebele

Beaded Panel for a Blanket Cape

Ndebele, 1933-1999

Physical Qualities Glass beads (white, black, pink, blue, orange, and red; translucent red, yellow, green, royal blue, and orange), cotton thread, 47 5/8 × 3 11/16 in. (121 × 9.3 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number 1991.378
White ground, letters in colors, triangles over row of rectangles, human figure (?) black head, green body, yellow arms, blue legs, wearing front waist garment.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.

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