The Anacostia Community Museum's new exhibition "Ubuhle Women ... The tiny colored Czech glass beads densely hand-sewn onto black fabric canvases showcase both Xhosa and Zulu traditions.

This exhibition showcases a new form of bead art, the ndwango ... The black fabric on which the Ubuhle women work is reminiscent of the Xhosa headscarves and skirts which many of them grew ...

Xhosa and Zulu women have been fashioning beadwork for ... interviews with curators and collective members, a display of beads and beading tools, a gallery guide and a self-guided online ...

Called Ubuhle, or "beauty" in the Xhosa language ... At the same time, the women are raising families and running households. They bead while they cook, while they chop wood and while they ...

OSHKOSH – It's hard to miss the colorful, nearly 15-foot-tall cross hanging in the Paine Art Center and Garden's first-floor gallery, and it only takes one glance to appreciate the effort ...

Married Xhosa women wear isikhakha during celebratory occasions ... genital area during virginity testing ceremonies. These beads are usually white and turquoise. The names given to children ...

“Throughout our upbringing, we saw these images [of Xhosa women wearing traditional Xhosa beadwork]. And through the beads, she taught us anthropology. She said our identity and where we came ...

Sangomas in beads dance, sing and clap ... could help me unlock the key to what was going on was an illiterate Xhosa woman, who lived 5km away." And so Lockley began training to become a sangoma ...