Indicator of status.

According to Bruce Metcalf, (2008) “the most important subtext of jewelry is to mark social identity and status. Adornments are to either distinguish or merge the wearer with social groupings. The coded information that societies evolve for jewelry can be employed to make the wearer different from his neighbors or the same". Jewellery often represents a person’s status, both in today’s society and throughout history. People of higher social status or wealth often own and wear jewellery that is more valuable. They may own more jewellery than others may. I have incorporated these symbols and patterns to design a headband. I sketched (see figure 1) designed in telling the story of a man who wants to distinguish his social status in the environment he lives in. This is the Xhosa bling Idayimani (headband) (see figure 1 ). (Metcalf, (2008)

Figure 1 - Rozani B., (2019) drawing of  my design process.

Figure 3 - Rozani. B., Modern Xhosa Idayimani.