Wednesday 13 March 2013

vHa-VeNDa CuLturE

vHa-VeNDa CuLturE


An introduction of who I am...
As with most of the other tribal peoples of Southern Africa, the Venda migrated southwards from Central Africa. They are regarded to be one of the last black groups to have crossed the Limpopo River. They first settled in the Soutpansberg Mountains.
vHa-VeNDa ArcHitecTUre
Above, a Venda homestead photographed at Mbilwe prior to 1928. Duggan-Cronin wrote: The work of cutting and erecting the poles of the hut is done by men, the plastering is done by women, as is the thatching. The little wall around the veranda is usually very skillfully ornamented, with various colours obtained from the different-coloured earths in the region. 


 
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  1. Unknown23 November 2014 at 06:46

    Hi Mpho, congratulations for your blog.

    I'm an spanish architect who write to you from Chile. I found your blog looking for southafrican architecture. I'm tryin to synthesize the esencia of the southafrican architecture to apply it in a project that I'm working right now. Do you have any more info about the architecture typologies of other tribes? I'm very interested in the Bantú, Sotho, Zulú and Nedebele traditional architecture.

    Thaks!

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