Georginah Kabe prepares the skin for colouring, adding water and smoothing with a stone before adding dried and prepared mositsane to water and rubbing this onto the skin She then adds more finely powdered dye to work the colour in further Finally, the skin is rolled and wrapped and left for the dye to take effect
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
LA18
Rights owner
University of East Anglia and University of Botswana