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South Africa's Xhosa people are known for their intricate bead work. The heavy use of lines, angularity and the color white in their dress gives it a look that is both traditional and futuristic. W…

Date: 20th century. Geography: South Africa. Culture: Xhosa or Mfengu peoples. Medium: Cotton, wool, glass beads, shell buttons, ochre pigment. Dimensions: ...

South Africa's Xhosa people are known for their intricate bead work. The heavy use of lines, angularity and the color white in their dress gives it a look that is both traditional and futuristic. W…

The Xhosa are part of the South African Nguni migration which slowly moved south from the region around the Great Lakes, displacing the original Khoisan hunter gatherers of Southern Africa. Xhosa peoples were well established by the time of the Dutch arrival in the mid-17th century, and occupied much of eastern South Africa from the Fish River to land inhabited by Zulu-speakers south of the modern city of Durban

Necklet, neck ornament made of beads.

Date: 20th century. Geography: South Africa. Culture: Xhosa or Mfengu peoples. Medium: Cotton, wool, glass beads, shell buttons, ochre pigment. Dimensions: ...

Participants in an annual South African traditional dance festival

"I was born on 18 July 1918 at Mveso, a tiny village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the district of Umtata, the capital of the Transkei." "The Transkei is 800 miles east of Cape Town, 550 miles south of Johannesburg, and lies between the Kei River and the Natal border, between the rugged Drakensberg mountains to the north and the blue waters of the of the Indian Ocean to the east. It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep…

Xhosa woman. South Africa. 1967, google search

Duduzile Zuma and Thobeka Madiba with Mandla Mandela and his French wife Anais Grimaud during their traditional wedding at the Mvezo Royal Palace on March 20, 2010 in Eastern Cape, South Africa.