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Type of Object:
Ethnic Group:
- Ndebele Cache
29th c.
- This is an older piece which has been used. The Ndebele
of South Africa are superb beadworkers.
In many parts of Africa, women simply wore pubic aprons
also known as 'caches sexes’’, literally - ‘‘to hide the sex,’’
until approximately 1961, when governmental restrictions
required women to be fully clothed. However the tradition
continues in a number of ornate beaded forms worn today.
This young girl's beaded apron is of traditional panel design
of the Ndebele society with glass beads.
- The women used to wear brass rings around their neck and
legs. A few still do, but most now are worn on ceremonial
occasions. Married women's aprons are different from this
one, and wedding aprons are yet a third kind. The wear
beaded blankets like large shawls, and beadwork on their
arms, ankles, and heads.
Ethnic Group:
- Ndebele Society
- South Africa
- Glass beads
Natural fibers
- 10 in" x 7"
