Mumuíla Woman (2025)

Mumuíla Woman illustrates how my subconscious interprets the historical evolution of women from southern Angola after independence to the present day. The featured fabrics are called Pimdale, Samakaka, Pimdale and an unknown fabric from Nigeria. The Pimdale is a fabric that represents the people of Huambo, southern Angola; Samakaka is a fabric that represents the people of Huíla, its fabricated by the Mumuíla woman and symbolises the harmony between all the tribes that are located in the national territory, thus giving rise to the Angolan nation. The uncommon hair that the Mumuíla women carrier symbolise the beauty and wealth of the Mumuíla men carrier on the southern Angola society; the Southerner women show off their hair with great pride, where the Mumuíla women (a tribe located in the south of Angola) moisturise their hair with cow faeces to strengthen the strands of their hair and lavish purity. Before colonial times, beads were the currency between tribes; in more modern days, beads symbolise the economic power of each family between tribes. Mumuíla women carry beads in their hair and clothes to exude the wealth of their husbands and relatives to society.

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