Slide 4. Inkulu: the inheriter.

This slide shows the methodology of how i am going to manufacture contemporary jewellery according to the milestones of a Xhosa man.

In the Xhosa culture INKULU is the first born son, the one eligible for inheritance. The

inheritor could have been fortunate enough to inherit the homestead and the livestock of his

father. Of which could be converted into goods, exchange of livestock for vegetables and

paying lo bola including other services should a need arise in the society. I wanted to

manufacture a piece of jewellery that socially communicates that when worn by a person. I

looked at the cow horns and the house.

In this slide i wanted to narrate and depict the meaning of the milestone "INKULU' first i looked at what an inheritor will inherit, primitive Africans most had wealth as a form of land inheritance, moving property inheritance. land inheritance would have been the homestead and the fields to grow crops and moving property inheritance would be livestock. i chose to come up with a jewellery design that shows both systems of inheritance as this was what a xhosa man would inherit in a death of the head of the household