SOUTH AFRICAN PRINTS AND GIFTWARE

TRIBAL PRINTS   (follow link for Jewelry and  Wildlife)

Art & Framing Solutions has a limited number of tribal prints available.  These prints by Charlotte King are approximately 15" X 21" , and cost US$50 each.

Tribal Life in Africa

Unlike in modern western culture, the traditional African tribesman had no sense of individualism.  Each person was simply a member of the tribal community.  A person's worldview and identity which form the basis of social behavior were formed through tribal identity.

Even today, in the most westernised locations of Africa, individuals often identify themselves with names that denote tribal relation rather than parental relation.  The strict maintenance of family blood lines, in both matrilineal and patrilineal societies results in villages made up almost entirely of the extended family.  It is also common to find villages of extended family relatives grouped closely together.

At the basis of African religiousness is the concept of a universal force of life present in all things; man, animal, vegetable and mineral. The belief that man together with everything else in his environment, draws energy from the same sacred source, makes man only a part of the natural order. 

This oneness with nature is not simply a spiritual awareness, it is an affinity with nature that manifests in the very day to day life of the African, not least of all reflected in the many rituals that govern his existence.

Tribal Herdsman