Exclusive Unpainted & Plain Wooden Serving Trays From T he Zulu People
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Plain wooden tray, light-colored wood, beautifully grained, charred underside this is an indispensable elements for Zulu interior culture.
Zulu people
have a special way of working with wooden crafts, and most of the crafts they
make to sell in South Africa and abroad countries have a sense of belonging,
because they craft from their experience and knowledge of the use of these
craft. In the old Zulu days, while
King Shaka
Zulu reigned KwaZulu Natal, the people made most of things themselves. They
made tradition clothes from animal skin, cutlery and dishes from wood, they grew
they own food, make fire, build houses using cow dung and make their own beer.
There only thing they couldn't make themselves is guns and bombs, instead
they've used
spears
and shields.
You can have one of these plain wooden serving trays
Plain Wooden Serving Trays
Plain wooden trays was used to serve the people, in Zulu culture it is considered bad manners and not being respective to serve people food without trays.
For instance
what will happen in Zululand is when a King has invited all his officials to
gather and discuss a matter, the King will call out the helpers in the Zulu clan
to prepare food and drink
"umqombothi". When the food is ready the Zulu women themselves do not go to
the kraal and give the men food and drink, instead they would send the Zulu
maidens to take the food and drinks (in a way, it was a women teaching for the
to the
Zulu
maidens), because they were women and young they were not allowed to take
the food only using the dishes but had to put the dishes on to the unpainted
wooden serving trays.
Abaqulusi
Zulunatal
&
Emnambithi
are places that can never be mised when you
visit KwaZulu Natal and Durban.
This is for the very same reason why the plain wooden serving trays were made in the Zulu land.
Using the
Unpainted wooden serving trays
Today the plain and unpainted wooden serving trays can be used for various ways, as a decorative piece of wood, a platter to hold fruits or snacks.
Don't you think its time you owned your own plain & unpainted wooden tray now! If so, please fill in the form below and our zulu art consultancy will get your order. The above images represent the kind of clay pots you can order.