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 | Lady with Braids by Caleb Samhire
Model: Shona Stone
SKU: 8063953L Manufacturer: by Caleb Samhire
Condition: New
Shipping weight: 20 lb Our Price: $8,000.01 STOCK QTY: 1 
| DESCRIPTION: | Lady with Braids by Caleb Samhire
Shona Stone
24" tall (heavy)
Retail Price $4500
Shona Artists and Crafts People
Shona artists and crafts people have been working in different media for generations. These include paintings, pottery, basket ware, wood carvings, and sculpture done in metal as well as the stone carvings illustrated in our African art catalog. While there is not a long standing tradition of sculpture in what is now Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), stone carvings dating from the 15th century were seen in Great Zimbabwe, an excavated temple near Bulawayo. Most of the artifacts from this location have been moved to museums in Cape Town, South Africa or London.
It is generally agreed that Zimbabwean stone sculpture as seen today began during the late colonial period of the 1950's and 1960's. During this period the artists and artisans depicted many of the traditional Shona and other tribal spiritual myths such as the Nyaminyami (River God) pictured here.
The Nyaminyami is the river spirit medium of the Tonga people, who used to live along the banks of the Zambezi river. The River God could foretell the weather and provide meals freely to everyone who asked for them. The spirit resides in the Zambezi River and the Tonga people would perform their dances to ask the Nyaminyami to end periods of drought or to stop the rain.
When the Kariba Dam was built on the Zambezi, the Tonga people were relocated. It is said that the building of the dam wall separated the Nyaminyami from his wife and children, and that the tremors felt at the dam wall is the River God trying to find a way to reunite with his family.
Out of all the nations in Africa, the large varieties and abundant supplies of rock formations present throughout the Zimbabwe landscape provide artists with a medium for sculpture and carvings unique to their country. The Shona art sculpture of Zimbabwe combines the wonderful varieties presented by the stone with images drawn both from reality and abstract symbolism. Figures like the rhinoman illustrated here are almost, but not quite either an animal or human form.
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