African Baskets

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Africa | Basket by Zulu master weaver Beauty Ngxongo. ca. 1991, South Africa. | Beauty is well known for her 'isichumo' baskets, a water tight vessel.
Africa | Wisdom Basket (Kweemishaam'l). Kuba culture (Democratic Republic of Congo). ca. 19th - 20th century | Raffia, cane, cowries, glass beads, copper
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Africa | Basketry cover for a Calabash/Gourd from the Wassiba/Haya people of the Kiziba region of Tanzania | ca. late 19th to early 20th century | © Foto: Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
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Africa | "The fine quality of basketry produced in western Ngamiland, Botswana, has put the villages of Gomare and Etsha on the world map of craft producers" | Image and text from the publication "African Basketry; grassroots art from Southern Africa". Anthony B Cunningham & M Elizabeth Terry
Africa | Lidded baskets from the Borana people of Ethiopia and Kenya | Handwoven and decorated with cowrie shells
Botswanan baskets
Exhibition of baskets from Botswana at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London
African Baskets | Shop Fair Trade at Baskets of Africa
Renowned Zulu masterweaver Laurentia Dlamini, holding one of her baskets. | Laurentia is the only living weaver from the original resurgence of basket weaving that happened in South Africa in the 1950's. She was one of the original 4 weavers that started a weaving co-op in 1972 | She is 75 years old now and has been weaving for more than 60 years.
South African Baskets | Photos of Southern Africa
Africa | Baskets for sale at the market in Johannesburg. South Africa | © Solly van Staden
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Africa | Iqoma bowl basket from the Zulu people of South Africa
Africa | Mary Sibaya, proudly holding up her Zulu Wedding basket. | Image © ZanzibarTrading
Archive/Exhibitions/Past Exhibitions:/Angeline Masuku at Casa Nova Gallery
Baskets by Angeline Masuku. (South Africa) weaving in traditional coiled and over-stitched Zulu basketry' constructed of plat fiber, dyed with roots and berries.
Black & White Exhibition
Kim Sacks gallery. / South African basketry
Weaver and Basket
Africa | A basket weaver photographed in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | © Lauren Barkume