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- Ndebele peoples
- skirt, late 1800s–1993
- Where object was made: Zimbabwe
- cotton
- Object Length: 71 cm
Object Length: 27 15/16 in - Gift of Sue Schuessler
- Not on display
- 2007.0271
- Ndebele peoples
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Multimedia
- Description
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The wraparound style unbleached cotton pleated skirt has a wide waistband which continues as ties.
It was intended to be worn when a healer is calling sangoma (ancestral) spirits or when sangoma (ancestral) spirits are possessing a healer.