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Berta

This is Berta, a San artisan living in a very remote community at the Namibia Botswana border. She makes a living by creating abstract artwork for nonprofit OMBA Arts Trust. She also makes beads out of shards of ostrich eggshell, a San tradition that is over 70,000 years old. She then sells strands of her eggshell beads back to OMBA for additional income.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2023
Date Uploaded: 12.2024
Photo Location: Talismanis, Namibia
Copyright: © Susu Hauser