SAN BEADWORK

Every year various clans of San, from the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, travel huge distances to the village of D’kar, near Ghanzi, in Western Botswana. They meet to hold a dance festival where each clan performs their own traditional dances for the others. They rub their skins with a mixture of fat and ochre until they glow, wear their best traditional clothing and jewellery and discuss life over a pipe of tobacco between dances.

This image has been hand processed on warm tone fibre based paper, fixed, hypo-cleared, washed, selenium toned and washed again to the requirements of ANSI archival standards, by Dennis da Silva, one of the most respected craftsman in his field in South Africa.

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