Rebecca matibe biography
- Learn more about Rebecca Matibe (South African, 20th Century).
- Rebecca Matibe is a master craftsperson and through her work she is ensuring that traditional Venda pottery lives on.
- Potter Rebecca Matibe had produced functional craft ware for her community for many years.
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A visual exploration on the theme of women using their pottery in performance, creation, transportation, market sales and rituals.
Toubou woman souvenir seller. western Ennedi. Chad
Photo – © Jacques Taberlet.
The traditional usage of pottery taps into a rich vein of customs, from tribal ceremony and production techniques to being integrated into dance performance and street festivals. The ancient traditions used the pot as a metaphor for sustenance and divine plentitude following the ancient tribal belief of enacting visual rituals to attract abundance. The Bihan Parab “Indigenous Seeds Festival ” in India has a procession of women carrying decorated earthen pots containing seeds accompanied by youths with drums, which passes through all the villages.. The leading woman carries a special pot constructed with paddy seeds, symbolizing Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. Ritual dancing among worshippers of the thunder deity, Shango, sometimes balance a pottery container of fire on their heads while dancing. The Egbado Yoruba have dances that include
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Art, Heritage or Craft?
Posted on September 17, 2009
How is an object valued?
For want of a better word, the collection is called 'traditional' because it is understood to have been created within and for communities that, to a lesser or greater extent, follow authentic African ways of life (what is authentically African is the subject of another discussion). It is made up of objects from southern Africa dating back some 150 years with others made during the twentieth century, the most recent within the last 10 years. It would seem logical to define these objects as craft since they are all handmade and are mostly functional including milk pails, beer vessels, beaded clothing, baskets and pi
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Date:27 May 2018
By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.
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