Photographs
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Similar to F2/27. Mashingeni Khumalo with red shirt is looking on and gives advises. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
On the place where the ox had been slaughtered four men drink beer. The beer pot is to the left, the drinking calabash is in an enamel dish. Some intestines and part of the ox' stomach are on one of the meat trays. Susa had to eat ceremonially little pieces from the ox' raw stomach. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The meat was deposited for one night for the ancestors spirits in Ziphelaphi's beehive hut. (In traditional beehive huts the ancestors' spirits feel well). The meat is placed on green leaves with which the floor is covered. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
On part of the floor which has not been covered with leaves: an enamel dish wisth entrails, a grass broom, a large earthen pot with medicines, and upon it a grass woven dish of the type isiqabetho . |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The ox tail and the ancestor spear with which the ox had been killed, in the hut. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Insonyama, the Zulu's favourite meat, and some entrails in the beehive hut. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Ox head, meat and blood vessel.(cf 3/26 and 3/27) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The medicine man Mtoleni Nyandeni arrives for the festival.(Other pictures for Nyandeni see folder "Glimpses on Ceza Mountain) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The ruin's wall served as a windscreen in which the meat of the ox and samp were cooked for the ceremony. In the background a guest hut and Ziphelaphi's little square house. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma Madela invites the guests by blowing a horn |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Ziphelaphi in festival attire in front of Bafungile's house |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Alexina Madela Dlakude prepares samp, i.e. groarse maize. In an enamel basin in the foreground some potatoes. To the left Mashingeni Khumalo, behind Alexina the youngest sister of Laduma. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Similar to F4/14. To the left a son of Susa Madela |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Susa's son cooks the ox meat. To the right Mashingeni Khumalo |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela has the rod in his left hand and the stone in his right hand. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The round stone from the river smeared both flat sides crosswise with black anti-lightning medicine |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela with the ladle for fetching the clouds during a thunderstorm, "ukuphaka izulu" (to ladle out-as food-the heaven) Cf. "Medizinen", plate 14 and pp. 84, 85. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma in front of the tree Clerodendrum glabrum (Verbenaceae in his neighbour's Mashingeni Khumal kraal. It is a tree which is said never to be striken by lightning. From its branches the lightning-rods are made. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Some meat was carried into the hut on a wooden tray. It was then placed on the green leaves. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with a magical powerful necklace, iziqu, from the cones of casuarina equisetifolia (casuarinaceae) which the author had bought in 1977 from the Santa Lucia Bay. The pendant is a container, umfece, for snuff-medicine, carved by Laduma Madela from the wood of umthombo. |