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Artist: Ilandi Barkhuizen Title: Make the circle bigger i (Sesotho) Medium: Mixed media on canvas Size: 100 x 80cm Price on Request Sotho:
- Within this culture's attire the blanket is one of the main items worn.
- It is seen a as status symbol, as well as cultural identification.
- There are different blankets for different life stages and ceremonies.
- The moholobela is a fertility blanket worn by young Sotho men in preparation of their transition to manhood.
- The young men in Lesotho will don a different blanket known as the lekhokolo, which confirms that they have reached adulthood.
- A sotho bride would wear a motlotlehi wedding blanket on her wedding day
- Husbands traditionally gift their wife a serope blanket when their first child is born.
- Seana Marena means the chief's blanket and is exclusively worn by the king and his chiefs and it has the highest status of all Basotho blankets.
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