Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Traditional accessories.







Traditional fabric iBayi.
Beaded in the traditional Xhosa colours of white, black, blue and red.
Traditionally this is so that when a woman breastfeeds.

       Accessories form as an extension of self, the value of art in an individual rather than itself as an object isolated from its social context. this allows the Xhosa people to connect with each other,like man carrying their small bags made out of ibayi, a traditional fabric that is 100% cotton around other man, which their put their pipes and tobacco in, and woman smoking pipes together with their long pipes, to prevent smoke inhalation to their children.
the culture is the catalyst for aesthetic experiences, the identification of self in the self awareness of the self. accessories become us.


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