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Beaded Dolls from Capetown, South Africa
Beaded Mermaid Doll (#cpd-15)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8" h. x 18" l.)
$165 SOLD 8/03
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These wonderful beaded dolls are created by enterprising women living in the townships surrounding Capetown, South Africa. The work has come to us from a project to employ and empower women in the townships of Mandela Park, Khayalitsha and Phillipi. The project provides each woman with the glass beads and pays cash for each doll or bag she produces. The 180 women currently participating in the project are producing a variety of one-of-a-kind dolls and bags. In designing and creating these artworks, the women draw on and renew the rich artistic traditions of their several ethnic groups - Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho and others. In thse works the bead artists of the Cape townships are creating a new, often humorous and sometimes quite startling synthesis of folk traditions.
Capetown doll artist at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, NM, July 2005.
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Artist Mathapelo Ngaka in Santa Fe, July 2006.
Traditional Zulu doll artist Lobolile Ximba demonstrates her art at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, NM, July 2004.
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Beaded Doll (#cpd-14)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(19" h.)
$165 SOLD 2/06 |
Beaded Mermaid Doll (#cpd-15)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8" h. x 18" l.)
$165 SOLD 8/03 |
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Beaded Horse (#cpd-16)
By Thabisa Zinakile - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10 1/2" h. x 12 1/2" l.)
$128 SOLD |
Beaded Antelope (#cpd-17)
By thamie - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(9" h. x 12" l.)
$88 SOLD 9/05 |
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Beaded Antelope (#cpd-18)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(9" h. x 12" l.)
$88 SOLD 9/05 |
Beaded Antelope (#cpd-19)
By Nolwando - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8 1/2" h. x 9 1/2" l.)
$78 |
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Beaded Antelope (#cpd-20)
By Nomonde Nofemele - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(7 1/2" h. x 9" l.)
$78 SOLD 6/2007 |
Beaded Doll with Child (#cpd-21)
By Elsie - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(18" h. x 9" w.)
$128 SOLD 12/05 |
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Beaded Doll with Child (#cpd-22)
By Olga - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(17" h. x 4" w.)
$64 SOLD 12/05 |
Beaded Doll (#cpd-23)
By Victoria - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(12 1/2" h. x 3" w.)
$58 |
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Beaded Angel (#cpd-24)
By Mdibaniso - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8 1/2" h. x 3 1/2" w.)
$42 SOLD 12/05 |
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