Ndebele Beadwork Items

Beadwork Items for Sale
			The wife of the late King David Mapoch wearing a fully beaded jocolo and at right a young married woman traditionally attired with blanket and mapoto (Illustrated in Art of the Ndebele -FS 29 pg 13)
Jocolo PSN29	Jocolo PSD21

Mapoto PSM35	MapotoPNZ17

			Three unmarried girls wearing pepetus and rings Illustrated in the following publications: *Ndebele Images* Knight/Priebatsch pg 12 Metropolitan Museum of Art: *Extreme Beauty - The Body Transformed* (Frontispiece Dec 2001)
Pepetu SL3	Pepetu SL4


			Married woman with white beaded blanket and Nyoga Illustrated in *Art of the Ndebele* -FS 32 pg 15
Nyoga CN298


DESCRIPTION OF THE BEADED ARTIFACTS (most of these are available on request and full outfits may be assembled) We have employed the phonetic spelling of each artifact followed by other forms of each word as used in other publications Details of the items and illustrations will be found in Ndebele Images and include - 1. Mapoto (Liphoto amophoto) - a beaded fringed apron worn by married women for daily use. 2. Jocolo (tshogholo, ijogolo) - bridal apron. 3. Linaga - goatskin cape with beads. 4. Pepetu - (Ipetu or Isiphephethu) - unmarried girl’s apron. 5. Ghabi - (ligabi) - little girl’s front apron. 6. Thimba - (Isithimba) - back skirt worn by married women. 7. Nyoga - (Inyoka, inyoga) - a long beaded panel attached to the Linaga moving like a snake. 8. Nguba (Ikumbesi, Irari) - woollen blanket with beads. 9. Linga Koba (Umlingakakobe, Millingakobe) - literally “long tears” - long narrow strips of beads attached to a headband and worn by a mother whose son is at an initiation camp. 10. Zila (Tzila, Idzila) - neck, arm and ankle bands made from solid brass or copper. 11. Cholwane (Isigolwane) - the beaded leg, body, arm or neck rings 12. Isiyaya - strips of beads forming a veil.