Makonde

[ muh-kohn-dey ]

noun

, plural Ma·kon·des, (especially collectively) Ma·kon·de

1. a member of a people living in northeastern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania, renowned as woodcarvers.
2. the Bantu language of the Makonde people.

Example Sentences

They surround the centerpiece of her installation, called “Mother Mound,” which fills a courtyard — a hill whose shape echoes Makonde and Congolese belly masks and suggests a woman’s pregnant body.

From New York Times

Boritt said Richardson Jackson invited him to examine the Makonde sculpture she and her husband own to give him a sense of what she envisioned.

From Washington Post

So, I wanted the piano to look like a Makonde statue and Mama’s face had to be the most prominent, and then the little boy Charles.

From New York Times

But, Sam and I — you know I am married to Sam Jackson, right? — well, back in our house in Los Angeles, we have a Tree of Life statue made by the Makonde sculptors from East Africa.

From New York Times

The beheadings reflected the continuing expansion of the insurgency that began in earnest in October 2017 along the northern coastal area of Cabo Delgado but has moved to the interior into the heartland of the Makonde tribe of Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi.

From Washington Post