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Xhosa women's outfit, made from cotton blanket fabric coloured with red ochre and decorated with glass beads, mother of pearl buttons and black felt trim. Traditional crafts include bead-work, weaving, woodwork and pottery.
During these months, trees have these grassy cocoons that Xhosa people refer to as ntonjane. The kind of grass that the girl sits on during the ritual, called inkxopho, [further explanation needed] bears a resemblance to the cocoons encasing of the caterpillars on the tree, hence the name intonjane. The intonjane ritual takes three to six weeks ...
Shweshwe clothing is traditionally worn by newly married Xhosa women, known as makoti, and married Sotho women. [9] [10] [14] [15] Xhosa women have also incorporated the fabric into their traditional ochre-coloured blanket clothing. [7] [16] Aside from traditional wear, shweshwe is used in contemporary South African fashion design for women and ...
Nongqawuse is believed to have been quite conscious and aware of the tensions between the Xhosa and the Cape Colony. [3] During this period, Xhosa lands were being encroached upon by European settlers. The orphaned Nongqawuse was raised by her uncle Mhlakaza, who was the son of a councillor of Xhosa King Sarili kaHintsa. [4]
Xhosa people wear beaded clothes when they perform umxhentso. The name of these traditional garments is umbhaco, while their cousins, the Zulus, wear animal hide (men) and colourful clothing and beads (women). They usually paint themselves prior to performing.
Nontsizi Mgqwetho (fl. 1920s) was a South African poet, "the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa". [1] Her poems were published in Umteteli wa Bantu, a multilingual weekly Johannesburg newspaper established in 1920. [2]
The longer smoking pipes are used by senior Xhosa women. These long pipes are called ‘uzalipholile’ meaning ‘it arrives cooled’ which refers to the cooling effect that drawing the smoke through a long stem has. The higher the status of the woman in the community, the longer the stem of her smoking pipe.
She described her music as "iingoma zesiXhosa" – "songs of Xhosa culture". She was acknowledged as the leading uhadi player in Ngqoko, and was also regarded as one of the most important Xhosa song leaders of the 20th century. [1] [2] Xhosa women in traditional Xhosa attire performing. Traditional Xhosa songs are in a call-and-response form.