Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mbhekeni Mhlongo
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11 October 1979
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In Laduma's kraal; from the goat killed in Bhidli's kraal, Mbhekeni and Bhidli brought the skin to Madela's kraal where they made an "ingubo yamadlozi" from it (they covering on the ancestor spirit), also called iminqwamba. It is the ceremonial cover of the chest of an isangoma.(Cf. in detail in Hendwerke, plate 45)
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