The Origin of the World

This exhibition aims to disseminate the rich material and embodied culture of San dress practices.

This exhibition aims to disseminate the rich material and embodied culture of San dress practices, and how these made explicit part of a complex cultural discourse encompassing all aspects of life – in myth, ritual, and everyday practice.

In San myth and folklore, we learn about this time, when identities were blurred and relationships between powerful beings of a different nature were social and interacting. After the creation of the Second Order, when animals became animal and humans became human, hunter-gatherers still needed to negotiate these relationships, so that the world as we know it today would not revert into ambiguity and chaos...To dress appropriately was one effective means to do this. On until end of July 2024.
Enquiries: tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za

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