Object Details
- Label Text
- Necklaces take a variety of forms. Their geometric designs echo those found in the wall murals Ndebele women paint on their homes' exterior walls.
- Description
- Four panel necklace with double seed attachments on a white background with geometric designs.
- Provenance
- Constance Stuart Larrabee, South Africa, 1937-1949 to 2000
- Exhibition History
- TxtStyles: Fashioning Identity, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 11-December 7, 2008
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Ndebele artist
- Date
- Early to mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Constance Stuart Larrabee
- Medium
- Glass beads, seeds, fiber
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 32.8 x 7.8 x 1.8 cm (12 15/16 x 3 1/16 x 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Textile and Fiber Arts
