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Doll3201/5

Doll figure is made of a cotton under- form, covered at bottom by a red and blue skirt with encircling rows of white beads. Torso and neck are wrapped with a twisted cord of undyed plant fibre, and its head of brown cotton perched at top. Hair made of twisted fibre hangs to below chin, eyes are made of white and orange beads; a line of white beads runs from forehead to chin. A vest of animal hair wraps around the doll’s shoulders and chest, and canvas arms emerge from sides. Bracelets of multi-coloured beads hang from elbows and wrists, and fingers are made of the same. Doll holds a hair whisk in one hand.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, plant fibre, skin, plastic and hair
Made in
Johannesburg, South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cape2790/8

Long beadwork panel worn down the back like a cape. Letter-like motifs of blue, green, pink, black and yellow beads are spaced horizontally on either side of a stylized house design in the centre of the white beaded background. Each short end is trimmed with a string of coloured beads, one long edge (top of letters) seems unfinished and uneven, and the other has a border of white and blue crochet-like beading dotted with single blue beads.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre and glass
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/6

Canvas apron with beadwork decoration in blue, white, pink, green, yellow and black. A backing of plain canvas, beaded to the front piece at the sides and with the top edge left open to insert a square of brown cardboard for stiffening support, has large stitches of brown and green thread across the top edge. Canvas is rolled and stitched at the top edge to create a waist band.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
paper, cotton fibre and glass ?
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Bracelet2790/18

Heavy ring-shaped bracelet made of coiled rope or grass fibres around which are tightly wound, on a slight diagonal, strings of plastic beads in a pattern of solid blue divided by seven bands of alternating black and white. Beads are imbedded in a layer of reddish clay.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
clay ?, grass ?, plastic and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/7

Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. A blackened flap of skin at the waist is folded over a stiffer tie (skin or fibre?), stitched and coiled with multicoloured beads, and edged with a row of brass rings above which is stitched a band of white beadwork. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with a green, pink, blue. black, orange, purple and yellow house design in the centre and coloured motifs in each of the panels.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, animal skin and glass
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/9

Apron made of numerous double strings of red, blue and white beads hanging between two knots in a piece of rope.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/5

Square beaded hide apron with brass metal rings along edge of flap at waist and two long ties. Beadwork designs in white, red, blue, green and black include patterns in the shape of a capital "I "and "H", a tall cross, and a long, low house. A central bottom fringe, made of twisted bundles of four skin strips encased together at the ends in beadwork tubes, hangs between two panels.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass, animal skin, metal and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/3

Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. A blackened flap of skin at the waist is folded over a stiffer tie (skin or fibre?), stitched and coiled with white beads, and edged with a band of white and blue beadwork that has a hanging chain of red blue, yellow and white beads at the centre. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with green, pink, blue. black, orange and yellow house designs in the centre and on two of the panels.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, animal skin and glass
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Apron2790/4

Heavy square canvas apron with beadwork decoration on the front. Canvas is rolled and stitched at the top edge to create a waist band, across which are stitched four strings of large white beads and through which is knotted one skin tie. A thick blue bead trim runs around the edge of the horizontal bands of beads that form a white ground, with non-beaded negative spaces at the top and dark blue, green, purple and black house designs at the bottom.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
plastic, cotton fibre, glass and animal skin
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck Ring2790/21

Part of a necklace ? or headdress ? composed of pieces of metal welded into a tiara-like form. Two rods of copper and one of brass are curve upwards from the centre to several joined cylindrical brass beads at the sides. Two brass buttons and three round brass beads are soldered to the rods at the centre.

Culture
Ndebele ?
Material
brass metal and copper metal
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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