At the heart of this beautiful and moving book are the mural paintings that cover Ndebele tribal houses in the South African Transvaal. Margaret Courtney-Clarke, a photojournalist raised in South-West Africa, traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal and in NDEBELE: THE ART OF AN AFRICAN TRIBE (Rizzoli, $45) she has recorded the art of the Ndebele women, including beadwork and ceremonial objects.
The murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new
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The murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new
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