Ndebele
Female Figure (Umndwana)
Ndebele, 1933-1976
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Ndebele
Female Figure (Umndwana)
Ndebele, 1933-1976
Physical Qualities
Grasses, glass beads (white, pink, green, orange, blue, royal blue, pearl, maroon, black, and purple; translucent green, yellow, red, light blue, royal blue, and purple), cotton thread, cloth, 9 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (24.5 × 12 × 8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Caroline Popper, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.387
Cone covered in cloth and strands of beads sewn over it. Neck and body hoops cover cone body. 'Arms', made of braided strands of blue and white beads, wear arm hoops. Head has white headpiece and green earrings. Pink face with black features, black hair in back.
Collected by the donor in South Africa in the early 1980's.
Frederick J. Lamp, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ndebele Beadwork: High Culture on the Run," Oct. 2, 1990 - Jan. 13, 1991.
