Zulu Beaded Breastplate
R1,800.00
‘Wearable art’ often used to communicate social status or marital intentions in Zulu culture
Zulu adornments are not only beautiful but play an important role in many traditional rituals, customs & ceremonies. The beadwork is a form of courtship communication between men & women. They reveal age, marital status, sexual intentions, region or clan the wearer is from, societal position etc.
FACTS:
Colours & geometric shapes are encoded with symbolism.
SHAPES
- A triangle shape facing downwards signifies an unmarried woman, while a diamond shape represents a married woman.
- A triangle facing upwards signifies an unmarried man & a married man is represented by an hourglass.
COLOURS – the colours used can have positive or negative meanings
- Green: Contentment, domestic bliss / Illness, discord
- Blue: Faithfulness, request / Ill feeling, hostility
- Red: Physical love, strong emotion / Anger, heartache, impatience
- Black: Marriage / Death, sorrow
- Yellow: Weatlh, garden, fertility / Badness, thirst, withering away
- Pink: Promise, high status / Poverty, laziness
- White: Purity, spiritual love, virginity, hope (It is unique among the bead colours because it is the only colour that carries strictly positive connotations & has no associated negative meanings).
| weight | 250g, 500g, 1kg |
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