A Xirutu basket woven by John Mmola in what is now Limpopo province, South Africa, in the early 1990s. Xirutu are food baskets that are mostly made out of a fibre coil of a woody creeper, cocculus hirsutus (Menispermaceae), over which telephone wire is stitched. Previously only natural fibre and dyes were used to make Xirutu baskets.
Authors
- Country
- UK
- Credit Notice
- Jonathan Katzenellenbogen / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
- Date published
- 02-11-2009
- External ID 1
- APN313024
- Image Number
- APN313024
- Published in
- London
- Sublocation
- London
