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Beaded Dolls from Capetown, South Africa
Beaded Antelope (#cpd-31)
By Cynthia Cekiso - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(12 1/2" h. x 11 1/2" l.)
$148
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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 MonkeyBiz 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 Antelope (#cpd-19)
By Nolwando - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8 1/2" h. x 9 1/2" l.)
$78 |
Beaded Horse (#cpd-26)
By Nwabisa Munzana - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10" h. x 9 1/2" l.)
$118 |
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Beaded Antelope (#cpd-27)
By Nancy Dyesi - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(9" h. x 10 1/2" l.)
$118 |
Beaded Horse (#cpd-28)
By Victor Muinjana - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(12 1/2" h. x 10 1/2" l.)
$148 |
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Beaded Horse (#cpd-29)
By Zoweka Tyhulu - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(13 1/2" h. x 12 1/2" l.)
$168 |
Beaded Doll (#cpd-34)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(18" h. x 3" w.)
$84 |
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