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Article: Calling back the past; Antique Zulu beadwork is a rare find these days but /thanks to the passion of collector Hlengiwe Dube, it has /been sourced from rural areas and will be on exhibition /in Durban from next week. Lindsay Ord reports.(Life)
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- Daily News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2009
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Hlengiwe Dube grew up in a family of beadwork collectors. As a child she would trawl rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal with her grandmother, MaDlamini Tatata Dube, sourcing antique jewellery, much of which finds its home today in museums like Kwa Muhle and Killie Campbell.
When the museums asked for more information about the pieces, the Dube women would head off, often on foot, to rural areas to track the history of the piece of jewellery.
When she was 12, she arrived at the African Art Centre and met Jo Thorpe, the founding director of the centre.
"I copied one of the love letters and made a beaded item and Jo bought it. It fuelled my passion for ...