The Basotho blanket is a distinctive form of woollen blanket commonly worn by Sotho people in Lesotho and South Africa.
Basotho women wearing blankets
Child wrapped in a traditional Basotho blanket
The Sotho, also known as the Basotho, are a prominent Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to Southern Africa. They primarily inhabit the regions of Lesotho and South Africa.
King Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Southern Basotho Nation of Lesotho, with his Ministers.
19th century Sotho warrior (top) and King Moshoeshoe (bottom).
A Mosotho man wearing a modianywe
Basotho women carrying a clay pot called a lefiso