These decorated aprons were gifts from the groom’s family to his wife, and signified her new role in society.
South Africa
Arts of adornment, like the thethana, have the amazing ability to function as signifiers of social belonging and individual status.
Thethana, South Sotho artist
This spectacular natural site contains many caves and rock-shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara.
uKhahlamba Drakensberg rock paintings (San)
Why watch the tides when you can read about it in the newspaper? Kentridge comments on social class in this drawing.
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