Young Married woman’s clother , Beads and ornamental beadworks have played an important role in the lives of African people. They reflect group identity, age, gender, social status, fashionable desires and are a vehicle through which people store, exchange and transmit wealth. Nyangatom live on the border with South Sudan…
This kind of figure had mnemonic funtion as the assisted in telling ancestors stories or the depiction of provebs. Height : 29x8cm Estimated age : Early 20th Century Material : wood Private Collections
Nyamwezi carvers are famous for their figures, which are usually carved out from a heavy wood with a shiny surface. They tend to have elongated features with the eyes inset with circular white beads. Such elongated figures with distorted limbs were used in water divination ceremonies. Height : 54x17cm Material…