Shona Headrest transporting and cooking

transporting and cooking

This vintage jugs are  hand-carved from indigenous wood by the Lozi people of Zambia

Hand-woven from grass and finished with leather with cowrie shells sewn on by hand

perfect for anywhere in the home

Shona Headrest transporting and cookingDESCRIPTION This elegant and sculptural headrest is part of an incredibly special collection of pieces which took 8 years to curate and is an incredibly rare find. For the Shona people of Zimbabwe, headrests are an ancient part of their culture and nowadays few own them, or have even seen one. Shona headrests have a long history of being a prestige ornament associated with political and religious leadership. They are hand carved from indigenous wood