Other unusual artworks in the Ancestral-Personal Sphere were designed to care for infants.

Other unusual artworks in the Ancestral-Personal Sphere were designed to care for infants. An elaborate pregnancy apron made from the skin of a goat was personally created for an expectant Zulu woman through her husband. He was assisted by the agency of the women in his family, who added symbolic beadwork. The apron reminded the ancestors that the family had killed the goat and had proffered it to them during a feast in their honor. The offering alerted these deceased relatives that a child had been conceived. When worn at the pregnant wife, the goatskin garment ensur that the ancestors would be pleased to cover the child in the matrix and to watch over its safe birth and healthy infancy.

brace attractive necklaces that Xhosa mothers one time wore to soothe their nursing babies were also included among these artworks. united was constructed of tiny aromatic made of wood rods that would feel level and click together pleasantly if handled according to an infant. The other was a smaller necklace strung with tiny dried foundations or cobs, which were probably moistened in like manner their medicinal qualities and pleasant taste and tissue would appeal to a teething child.

In the following Personal-Social Sphere, the Xhosa expression of contempt "I am a person end other people" introduced almost too-rich an array of beadwork, undivided costumes, articles of personal adornment, elegant utensils and staffs, ceramic uphiso and ukhamba skillets for ritualized hospitality, incised rigid milk containers, and beaded basketry. Included were numerous artworks that serv as outward signs of a person's position within a community. Professional male carvers made unplastic walking sticks and staffs for prominent Swazi, Tsonga, and Sotho individuals, who also take pleasure ined graceful wooden utensils, figural tobacco pipes, and small yet imaginative snuff containers. Among the style of dresss was the full assemblage of a prestigious Zulu warrior, including the amambatha collar of leopard skin and other signs of distinction, and the well-known cowhide shield that was carried in battle.