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South East African Beadwork
1850- 1910
From
Adornment to Artefact to Art
South East African Beadwork
Michael Graham-Stewart - Michael Stevenson
1850- 1910 From
Adornment to Artefact to Art
This book is an elaborate
sales catalogue devoted to gaining wealth from the sale of a collection of beadwork
with origins of south and south east Africa. It claims to illustrate 260
pieces of beadwork dating from 1850 to 1910. A minor player behind the book made
assertions that the entire collection was sold to the Africa Bank, which it was not.
The book contains 192
pages and is as new. Beadwork is presented as an art form, rather
than artifact. There are 19th century field images, maps,
reproductions of paintings, as well as chromolithographs
lifted from
Industrie des Cafres du Sud-Est de l'Afrique
- Snelleman and Muller 1891-92.
Much of the
collection was produced by Zulu speaking women
in the Zulu kingdom and Colony of Natal. There is material from Malawi,
Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Flying in the face of the books
title, items produced by Sotho women, as well as Xhosa speaking women from the
Cape are included.
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Price: $60.00
plus postage.
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