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| Sangoma connecting with ancestors |
Title: UXhumano nabaphansi- connecting with ancestors.
The reverence for Amadlozi and iThonga within Nguni culture is profound. These spiritual figures play a pivotal role in guiding, protecting, and maintaining the spiritual balance of the community. The rituals of offering animals to appease these entities exemplify the deep respect and acknowledgment of their influence on life and well-being within the Nguni society.
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| Sketch In this design I am planning on making a ram bangle with sculpted ram heads joined with wire and beading that takes patterns from the Zulu triangles. |
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| Sculpture after glazing This is how my cow sculptures turned out to look after firing and glazing. |
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| Installing horns This is the final product after gluing in the metal horns into clay sculptures. |
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| Inspiration |
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| Design on CAD |
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| TOP View |
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This is the idea I head of how the earring is going to look. I intend on making the pot handle as the hook of the earring. |
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| 3D Printed pots |
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| Glazing cow sculptures |
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| Detail close up I achieved this detail by painting my sculpture white and applying black paint on my brush and splattering paint on it. |
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| Zulu beer in a calabashe |
The image above is of uKhamba (calabashe) consisting of a Zulu beer. In isiZulu culture it is tradition that one makes Zulu beer when a Cow, goat, sheep and chicken is slaughtered.
KwaZulu ukhamba is placed at the ancestral room where impepho (incense) is burnt so that the ancestors can drink first the day before the ceremony. The next day everyone can then drink. Before ukhamba is given to guests a family member serving people with beer had to kneel down to show respect and drink first in front of those they are serving to show there is nothing poisonous in the
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| Design sketches |
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| CAD designed Calabashe ring |
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| Ring Top view |
