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Beehive Architecture
Badplaas, South Africa - Guy McLaren - Sunday, February 19th, 2006 : goo
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Contrary to some uptight westerner, this constitutes architecture, maybe not in the same scale as say the Empire state building but none the less, Consider it stone age architecture if you will, but this does not mean that was designed in the stone age was discarded. Some still build and live in these huts, The example you are looking at here is based on a royal swazi Kraal.
This area used to be part of Swaziland. Msibi, the wife of King Mswati I was practicing witchcraft and was banished instead of being executed. The Msibi Clan was moved to this area and thus it was named “Ebutswini”. (The place of Medicine)
Inside the hut
View from the main huts looking down over the sangoma (Witch doctors (left) and the children hut)
The Cattle horns are to please the ancestors
Note the sleeping, mats stools and central hearth.
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jeeff: 19th Feb 2006 - 16:45 GMT
wow, the patterns made by the bent branches are wild. i can see how they would lend themselves to a witchdoctor's hut. i really like reading the background history of these places as well. it gives the photos an added dimension.
ps. don't get too upset at the architecture comments - colavito's ghost said right off the bat that he/she wasn't trying to insult anyone. this site is as much about discussion as it is about posting photos, and for discussion you need people with different viewpoints, non? i often play the devil's advocate when i post comments.
aer suzuki: 25th Aug 2006 - 21:48 GMT
awesome post, thanks for sharing. this is exactly what i come to citynoise to see : scenes i may never see otherwise.
Nkosentle Msibi: 22nd Nov 2006 - 11:27 GMT
I would like to know more about Msibi history I am from Eastern Cape
Please keep me posted
Halley: 16th Mar 2007 - 07:55 GMT
on to only have a time machine that could take us back to the day's of our for fathers, i'd be the first one in,,,,,,,,,,,,,thanks for sharing information with your pics, it's brings them to a different light. cool
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