Cape (linaga)

Ndebele women wear curved goatskin capes adorned with a wide rectangular strip of beadwork on ceremonial occasions (fig. 55). The Dallas linage is an example of an old-style beadwork that is characterized by a predominantly white background and a row of open squares near the bottom of the cape. The abstract designs are made with red, green, orange, and blue beads. The beads were attached one bead at a time and reinforced by pulling the thread through each bead three times.(42)

The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art, cat. 95, pp. 250-251.

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NOTES:

42. Knight, Natalie, and Suzanne Priebatsch. Ndebele Images. Johannesburg: Natalie Knight Gallery; Boston: S. Priebatsch, 1983. p. 8.