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Beaded Dolls from Capetown, South Africa
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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, Khayalisha 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.
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Beaded Doll (#cpd-01)
signed Nolurisi - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10" h.)
$54 SOLD |
Beaded Doll & Child (#cpd-12)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8 1/2" h.)
$46 SOLD 10/02 |
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Beaded Doll (#cpd-03)
signed Velele Hobuhle - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(7" h.)
$42 SOLD |
Beaded Doll & Child (#cpd-04)
signed Funeka - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10 1/2" h.)
$68 SOLD |
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Beaded Doll with Purse (#cpd-06)
signed Patience - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8 1/2" h.)
$46 SOLD 4/03 |
Beaded Doll & Child (#cpd-08)
signed Cristina - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10 1/2" h.)
$68 SOLD 4/03 |
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Beaded Doll (#cpd-09)
signed Zondile Apolisi - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10 1/2" h.)
$54 SOLD 4/03 |
Beaded Doll (#cpd-02)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(10 3/4" h.)
$54 SOLD 8/03 |
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Beaded Doll (#cpd-07)
signed Mbuleni - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8" h.)
$46 SOLD 3/05 |
Beaded Doll & Child (#cpd-10)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(11 1/2" h.)
$68 SOLD |
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Beaded Doll (#cpd-05)
Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(6 3/4" h.)
$42 SOLD 12/05 |
Beaded Doll (#cpd-11)
signed Jayiya - Capetown, South Africa
Glass beads, cotton fabric.
(8" h.)
$46 SOLD 10/05 |
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