 Baskets

In the Zulu culture, specifically in the early 1800s, a chief named Shaka established the Zulu state by uniting smaller cultures of Southern Africa.In the early nineteenth century, growing tobacco had already been popular among them because of importation from the Americas in the 1600s.At this time, the crop was to be inserted in the nose and that was the most popular way of using it; this offering to ancestors was a way to appreciate them and show them good manners and respect.