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  2. Liza Lou - Wikipedia

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    [10] [7] In 2005, Lou established a studio in Durban, South Africa, a complement to her studio in Los Angeles. [11] Lou reached out to an organization called Aid to Artisans with an idea that her bead practice could provide income in high crises communities. [12] Their dialog resulted in Lou's moving to Durban to work with a collective of Zulu ...

  3. African textiles - Wikipedia

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    Southern Africa: Beadwork by the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Basotho has been documented. Historically garments were decorated from natural materials such as ostrich shells. It was only in the 1930s that the Portuguese introduced glass beads through trade and eventually the glass beads purchased from Indian merchants or Christian missionaries.

  4. Mapungubwe Collection - Wikipedia

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    Over decades, these excavations and scientific findings were largely held within academia and rarely reached public knowledge. The collection was assembled over 80 years of excavations by the University of Pretoria, although minor collections of Mapungubwe material are housed at several other institutions throughout South Africa.

  5. Zulu people - Wikipedia

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    Zulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, where it is an official language. More than half of the South African population can understand it, with over 13.78 million first-language and over 15 million second-language speakers. [8] Many Zulu people also speak Xitsonga, Sesotho and others from among South Africa's 12 official ...

  6. Beadwork - Wikipedia

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    Beadwork on the ceremonial dress of a Datooga woman. Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. [1] Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced.

  7. Trade beads - Wikipedia

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    The beads were integrated in Native American jewelry using various beadwork techniques. Trade beads were also used by early Europeans to purchase African resources, [2] including slaves in the African slave trade. Aggry beads are a particular type of decorated glass bead from Ghana. The practice continued until the early twentieth century.

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