Isidanga: turquoise neck piece.

This is a ceremonial neckpiece made of blue turquoise beads, cow skin, and silver. The neckpiece is manufactured with the use of a simple stringing of beads technique. The design process was focused on the milestone (Unomgcana). I wanted to create a neckpiece that addresses the aspects of the ceremony under the milestone, the beads tell a story of a ritual done after before and after the cow is slaughtered at a ceremony. Beads are given to guests attending the ceremony, and after the sacrifice of a cow has been done, the beads are collected and this ceremonial neckpiece is manufactured from those beads.

Fig 1 - Rozani, B., (2019) Isidanga (ceremonial neck piece. 

Fig 2 - Rozani, B., (2019)  cow skin, and silver.