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“The ancient Bushmen enter the international jewelry market
The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are almost as old as humanity itself. Geneticists tell us that they are perhaps the oldest group still walking the earth. Sadly, like many ancient peoples, they are among the poorest and most disenfranchised in their southern African homeland.
Poverty notwithstanding, for countless generations the Bushmen have made beautiful jewelry to adorn themselves and their loved ones. Largely isolated from the outside world until the last century, they created (and still create today) intricate pieces using wild seeds, sticks, bone, tortoiseshell, and most importantly of all, beads painstakingly hand made from shards of ostrich eggshell. With ingenuity and precision, the women turn some of the beads a rich brown by frying them or black by roasting them – in order to have three colors of beads with which to make patterns and designs.”
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Tags: Anna Haber, Boo George, Charlie Ryan, Hand Eye, Jewellery, Jewels of the Kalahari, Neo Khama, Sabine Roemer, Semane Khama
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Some of the images Boo George took during a trip to Kgalagadi in Botswana over December 2009 with Sabine Roemer, Anna Haber and Charlie Ryan. This is part of the Jewels of the Kalahari Jewellery Collection.
A trip full of inspiration and an exchange of knowledge from both Roemer and team and the Bushmen people.
The model used is a 13 year old girl from the settlement in the Kgalagadi.
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Tags: Anna Haber, Boo George, Bushmen, Charlie Ryan, Jewels of the Kalahari, Kalahari, Kgalagadi, Sabine Roemer
Élan Botswana recently got involved with a project that involves the women of the Sans People.
This is an initiative that falls under the Kuru Foundation / Group based in Botswana that helps to raise funds for various initiatives concerning the bushman in Southern Africa. Through our work relationships in England and Europe we have become part of this amazing project that involves the Bushmen women who design jewellery.
It was initially internationally exposed by a UK Model/ Actress, Lilly Cole. She discovered the bushman women and their jewellery when touring the Kgalagadi with the Telegraph Magazine. Having fallen in love with their works, she did an article, together with a photo shoot of the jewellery. From the media exposure of the jewellery she managed to get the products sold in London and New York, which profits have all come back to the bushman women to produce more and provide a sustainable environment.
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Tags: Botswana, Bushmen, Elan Botswana, Jewellery, Kuru Foundation, Lily Cole, Sabine Roemer, Sans People, The Telegraph

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