Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)

Textiles

c. 1950/60

Ngwane
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Ngwane
Title: Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)
Place: South Africa (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1940–1970
Medium: Eleven layers of cotton, polyester, and rayon, plain weaves; some fulled; some embroidered with cotton in laid work and couching; all beaded with cotton, polyolefin, plastic, and glass beads; embellished with brass buttons and cotton cords
Dimensions: 94.4 × 86.3 cm (37 1/8 × 34 in.)
Credit Line: Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1997.61

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