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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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Camel Bag2790/29

Fringed camel bag with deep side pockets. Hemp-like fibres in shades of orange, red, brown, green and blue are woven into thick stripes and triangles outlined in white. Along the sides and tops of the pockets is a border made of orange strands, looped around multicoloured rag filler. Bundles of twined strands hang from the top, middle and bottom of pockets.

Culture
African ?
Material
cotton fibre, grass and dye
Made in
Africa ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl2790/28

Large, heavy shawl with needle work paisley pattern. The craftsmanship of the red, blue, green, black, yellow and ivory design is less fine in the wide border. In the centre is a circular area of plain black fabric onto which is emboridered the numbers 22 CO 37 in ivory coloured thread. Other numbers (23222 and 949) are embroidered near two different corners.

Culture
Kashmiri
Material
cotton fibre and wool fibre ?
Made in
Kashmir, India ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fertility Figure2790/27

Fertility figure (akuaba) with a flat, disc-shaped head. High oval forehead, curved upraised brows, small horizontal oval eyes with a horizontal slit along the middle, a long vertical nose, and a small mouth at the bottom of the face. The arms are truncated off with small pointed breasts below. The lower half of the body is somewhat cylindrical with a flat back and widens slightly to an oval base at the bottom.

Culture
Asante
Material
stain and wood
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gourd Rattle2790/23

Unworked gourd with bumpy surface has one globular end and the other end long and narrow like a handle. Dried seeds inside the gourd rattle when shaken.

Culture
Southern African ?
Material
gourd fruit
Made in
Southern Africa, 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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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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