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The Kanga and Zanzibar


 

Early images of Zanzibar women showed them draping themselves in indigenous striped fabrics.

                                           Races of Man apx. 1880  

 

Later, in the mid 1800's cheap imported cloth called Americani was introduced.

                         

 

At first it is said that the poor wore Americani but the better off preferred Kangas. These two images show a mix of both, and demonstrate that even the poor and prisoners were starting to wear the Kanga.

 

        Zanzibar water carriers           Zbar women prisoners 

 

Women found the Kanga convenient for work:

 

        Rice picking          Early Kangas       Women crushing corn. Cutinho

 

For Shopping:

         Duka (Shop) Gomes                Hair care c1900

 

For Dance:

 

          Dance April 1902        Dancers. Delord c1904        Native Dance c1920

 

For Fashion:

 

                Two Arab ladies c1913        

 

Kanga style was always forward looking and designs making a statement about the wearers modernity were popular.

  

        modern houses and street lights apx 1900   

The vibrant color and variety of wearing options is a fixture of Kanga style...

        sorting cloves c 1960

... so much so that their absence on solemn occasions make these events even more memorable. 

        Seyyid Abdulla bin Khalifa last procession 04-07-63_              

                          



by Barghash 2005 

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