Kaross
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A kaross is a cloak made of sheepskin, or the hide of other animals, with the hair left on. It is properly confined to the coat of skin without sleeves and used to be worn by the Khoikhoi and Bushmen
Kaross embroiderers at work, kaross factory in Limpopo
Textiles on display, kaross factory, Limpopo
Kaross textile products on display, kaross factory, Limpopo
Kaross artist, Solomon Mohati, kaross factory, Limpopo
Khoekhoe
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Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of Southern Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San peoples, the accepted term for the two peop
Kaross
…sheepskin, or the hide of other animals, with the hair left on. It is properly confined to the coat of skin without sleeves and used to be worn by the Khoikhoi and Bushmen / San peoples of South Africa. These karosses became replaced by a blanket. Their chiefs wore karosses of the skin of the wild cat, leopard…
A Khoekhoe man
Nomadic Khoekhoe dismantling their huts, by Samuel Daniell (1805)
Adam Kok, leader of the Griqua nation
Khoekua marksmen played a key role in the Cape Frontier Wars.