Eastern Cape
Shweshwe · Xhosa
Indigo-dyed cloth reached the Eastern Cape through German traders, who sold it as "ujamani"; Xhosa women adopted it from the late 1850s.
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Indigo-dyed cloth reached the Eastern Cape through German traders, who sold it as "ujamani"; Xhosa women adopted it from the late 1850s.
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