TRADITIONAL VILLAGE CREATED BY CREDO MUTWA IN BOPHUTHATSWANA

 

green hutVillages built by Credo Mutwa  illustrate the varied styles of traditional African architecture and his vivid works of art entertain and inform us in surprising and moving ways.

Ndebele house

cat hut

Baba Mutwa’s student Nobela, a senior sangoma, at the traditional medicine hut

traditional healertraditional healer

hut with moons

hut and animalsarena and drum

Traditional healers – the senior sangomas at Lotlamoreng

traditional healers

traditional healerstraditional healershut with rhino skullrhino skull

circumcision stone

circumcision stone

stone circle

woman entering hutwoman entering huthut and stonesrhino skull fence

Traditional beehive shaped Zulu Hut,  rhino skulls and kudu horns

medicine village divination pool

Credo village Bophuthatswana gate

stone wallhut

SCULPTURES CREATED BY CREDO MUTWA IN BOPHUTHATSWANA

MISSION CHURCH

mission church sculpture

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Christ

AFRICAN EVE AT THE MISSION CHURCH

Eve

Eve

Eve

Eve

mission church sculpture

mission church sculpture

GREAT EARTH MOTHER

Great Earth Mother Boputhatswana

Great Earth Mother BoputhatswanaGreat Earth Mother Boputhatswana

Great Earth Mother Boputhatswana

ALIENS AND MYTHOLOGICAL BEINGS

Alien sculptures Boputhatswana

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TOKOLOSHE

Tokoloshe sculptures Boputhatswana

Tokoloshe sculptures Boputhatswana

VILLAGE HUTS AND SCULPTURES

hut and sculpturePedi huts

stone table

bird shaman