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Doll2790/20

Female stuffed doll in a bead decorated black coat and red skirt stands on rectangular wood feet. The head is a stuffed and painted piece of canvas with a painted mop-like trim sewn on around the top. A piece of cow hide with hair is wrapped around her shoulders, as are strands of black and white beads and seeds. In her hand, she holds a white hair brush with bead worked base. The legs appear to be wood are covered with a black fabric.

Culture
Ndebele ?
Material
hair, cotton fibre, synthetic fibre, wood, glass ?, seed, metal and skin
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Necklace2790/19

Beaded necklace with one square panel hanging on a long double string of green, yellow and black beads linked together at regular intervals with white bead circles. The panel is filled with a multicoloured house motif within a white ground and has a bottom trim of a double string of blue beads, below which hangs a band of white crochet-like beadwork.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ? and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Necklace2790/17

Beaded necklace (or head band ?) consisting of four square sections of beadwork strung together with large brown seeds and beads of different sizes and colours. Diamond, chevron and linear motifs in red, green, orange, blue and black decorate each of the white sections with crochet-like upper and lower borders. The one larger section has two brass bells hanging from the bottom.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, glass ?, seed and brass metal
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Anklet2790/16

Beaded anklet with crochet-like fringe. Strings of white, red, navy blue, light blue, pink, yellow and green beads are tightly wound around a bundle of brown fibre so that the beads create a geometric pattern at the front and leave the binding and fibres visible at the back. The anklet is flexible and bends to fasten at the ends with a brown plastic button through a blue bead loop.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ?, plastic and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Bracelet2790/15

Rectangular beaded bracelet. Wide band of beadwork has three lines of repeated multi-coloured motifs and a finishing black bead trim at each end. One long edge of the bead rectangle is stitched to a length of rope that bends around to fasten with two large black beads and a loop.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ? and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Headband2790/14

Beaded white headband with chin strap attached at sides. The headband has a top band of tight beadwork with square cut-outs and a bottom fringe of linked beads but at the front there is also a central band of ornate crochet-like beading that makes it wider than at the back. The chin strap has two square cut-outs on either side and a letter in black, orange and green at the height of each cheek ( "N" or "Z").

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ? and cotton fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Amulet2790/13

Fringed amulet with knotted skin ties. Numerous strands of twined brown rope, each with a loop of five white beads at the bottom, are stitched between rectangular pieces of thick canvas with dark beading on the front and at edges. One strand of white beads is looped across the top of the fringe. Each of the ties is knotted into a large loop at the loose end, one loops through a large button, the other loops over the button.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, glass ?, skin and plastic
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Amulet2790/12

Fringed amulet with skin ties knotted through beaded canvas. Numerous strands of twined brown rope, each with a loop of four black beads at the bottom, are stitched between rectangular pieces of thick canvas with dark beading on the front and at edges. One strand of white beads is looped across the top of the fringe.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
cotton fibre, glass ? and skin
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck Ring2790/11

Beaded neck ring. Strings of beads are coiled around a thick cord of rope ? in a pattern of solid areas of blue and black divided with rings of yellow, white and orange. Brown wool ties, thread through a green bead, are knotted together and tied off with two green beads each at the ends.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ?, cotton fibre and wool fibre
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Necklace2790/10

White beaded necklace. A small rectangular panel decorated with three similar motifs in green, orange, blue and black hangs at one end of thick cord of twined double strings of beads. The necklace (or headband?) fastens with a loop over two larger beads at the opposite end of the cord.

Culture
Ndebele
Material
glass ?, cotton fibre and plastic
Made in
South Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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