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Zulu Imbenge Pot Lids - Pot Covers

 

Couvercles de Marmites Zoulou - Zulu Topfabdeckung

 

 

 

 

 

Zulu Beer Cover or Pot Lids

 

"Imbenge"

 

 

 

WIRED: CONTEMPORARY ZULU TELEPHONE WIRE BASKETS

 

Zulu Beer Pots ukamba with imbenge lids.

 

Traditionally Nguni peoples made mbenge or izimbenge, a cover used to close the Ukamba beer pots. Beer cover lids were made from grass and ilala palm fibers. A major aesthetic revolution occurred when small, brightly colored glass beads were introduced by early European traders and missionaries. Inevitably these beads found their way onto the traditional izimbenge. The lids protected this sacred substance from dust.

 

 

 

 

 In time, telephone wire replaced the ilala palm. Until the introduction of the core of mild steel wire, small bundles of grass continued to be used as the coil as they had in the past.

 

 

 

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