About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Culture
- Ngwane
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Title
- Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)
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Place
- South Africa (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1901–1930
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Medium
- Seventeen layers of cotton and rayon, plain weaves; some fulled; plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed; beaded with cotton and glass beads; embellished with brass buttons and cotton and polyester cords
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Dimensions
- 79.6 × 92.2 cm (31 1/4 × 36 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Memorial Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1997.60
Extended information about this artwork
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