Ndebele Initiation Doll
The Ndebele Initiation Doll is made in the traditional dress of a married woman. The style of the apron worn over the doll signifies that she has a child within the marriage and it symbolizes her status as a parent. Ndebele Maiden Doll The Ndebele Maiden Doll signifies that when a girl face her puberty rites an is now seen for a marriageable age. But a beaded black hoop around the waist indicates that she is engaged to be married. Ndebele Sangoma Doll Among the Nguni people the Sangoma Doll is an important expect, a diviner who claims that can contact with ancestral spirits. It is said that she receives the will of the spirits but that she is a protector of the society. But also her opinion and judgment are very important and that everyone sees her as an important figure in their culture. Ndebele Fertility Doll The doll is made in secret by the maternal grandmother of the bride for when she begins her new home. The doll is given after the ceremony. Traditionally, after the third child the fertility doll should be give away or destroyed because it is considered bad luck. Ndebele Ceremonial Doll During engagement, a man who want to be in a serious relationship with a particular women place a doll outside a young woman's hut indicating is intention to propose marriage to her. Ndebele Bride Doll The Ndebele Bride Doll is in a traditional dress. The doll wears a beaded train (inyoga), which hangs from her shoulders and her face is covered by a beaded veil called a siyaya. Ndebele Linga Kobe Doll The Ndebele Linga Kobe Doll is important for the boys because every four years, hundreds of them spend two winter months in a secret place in the mountains undergoing the wela. They do this for they could turn from boyhood to manhood. During the time their mothers of the boys wear linga kobe, strips of beadwork that stretch from their headdresses, to show that their sons are away to the mountains in turning men. So the Linga koba translated means the “long tears” that the mother's goes through in losing their sons but tears of joy at gaining a man. |