Campbell Collections
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| Laduma from behind. |
Laduma from behind. the back of the waistcoat and the top of the peaked cap are beautifully decorated with genet skin. |
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| Laduma has fixed the emptied and inflated gall bladder on a stick . |
Laduma has fixed the emptied and inflated gall bladder on a stick which he puts into the roof of his hut in order to dry the gall bladder. to the right: the Swedish student of enthnology and theology Anders Fogelquist who is now, in 1999 a Lutheran pastor is Sweden |
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| Laduma imitates the churning of war medicine |
Laduma imitates the churning of war medicine. The black beer on the sitting mats represent the hostile Chiefs Dinizulu and Zibhebhu. |
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| Laduma Madela dressed like a Zionist. |
Laduma Madela dressed like a Zionist though he insisted to be no Zionist. Probably he dressed like that to please that part of his family which belonged to the Zionists |
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| Laduma Madela now wearing a sun helmet with his daughter Alexina |
Laduma Madela now wearing a sun helmet with his daughter Alexina to his right and two girls, all in Zionist gowns. |
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| Laduma Madela sits on his bed in his private hut. |
Laduma Madela sits on his bed in his new private hut. he wears a neckband, umqhele, from serval and on his right wrist a wristlet from the metatarsia of a very fast running duiker, which makes the person wearing it to be 'ahead' of all other people in every aspect. |
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| Laduma makes a meat tray |
Madela has peeled off the bark of a piece of the trunk of an eucalyptus tree. to the right are his tools. |
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| Laduma Mandela half-length portrait |
Laduma's half-length from behind. strips from genet skin are fastened at the crown anf fall on the back. on his lef arm an armlet from the skin of the Vervet Monkey, Insimango. |
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| Laduma presents a chicken to his favourite Ziphelaphi |
Laduma presents a chicken to his favourite Ziphelaphi who accepts it with both hands. it is Zulu customs to receive any gift with both hands. |
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| Laduma presents the book "Medizinen des Blitzzauberers Laduma Madela" |
Madela presents the book " Medizinen des Blitzzauberers Laduma Madela" which had been plublished in 1984. The shorter necklace is from the black fruits of the wild chestnut tree and vertebrae of the python. The longer necklace is from the vertebrae of another snake. |
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| Laduma seen from behind with ceremonial cloak, ixaba. |
Laduma seen from behind with ceremonial cloak, ixaba. (According to Madela is 'isiphuku' a clock with the skin turned inside, used for sleeping.) Laduma's clock is from skins of Grimm's Duiker. |
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| Laduma shows the way of smoking |
Laduma demonstrates the dacha horn which he had made from an ox horn with an inserted cane and wooden head. The red shirt is a gift from Prof. Horst Uhlig from Kiel University who made films with Madela in 1967. |
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| Laduma standing in front of his private hut |
Standing in front of his private hut Laduma watches the preparations for the boys' dancing in his courtyard on New Year. his favourite is fixing the crown similar to that which he had warn on F 2/7a at the head of one of the boys. |
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| Laduma starts drawing the figure of chief Lulwandle |
Laduma starts drawing the figure of chief Lulwandle, the finished figure of whom is seen in "Der einbeinige Gott", colour plate VI. |
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| Laduma wearing a tortoise-shell. |
Portrait of Laduma wearing a tortoise-shell he had made into a hat protecting him magically against lightning. |
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| Laduma with the skin of a porcupine the quills of which are used by the medicine men |
Laduma with the skin of a porcupine the quills of which are used by the medicine man for many purposes, e.g for the inoculation of medicines, for fighting the lighting doctor. |
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| Laduma working on the upper side of the meat tray |
Laduma starts to work the upper side of the meat tray. |
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| Laduma's buttock covering is from redbrown calf skin. |
Laduma's buttock covering is from redbrown calf skin. his anklets are from glass beads. |
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| Laduma's favourite MaMhlongo, Ziphelaphi Mhlongo Madela in her hut. |
Ziphelaphi is a female doctor, inyangakazi. she holds a diviner's switch over her right shoulder and licks fluid medicine from the fingers of her left hand. in front of her a potsherd with liquid medicine. |
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| Laduma's favourite Ziphelaphi |
Laduma's favourite Ziphelaphi demonstrates that she also knows how to handle a bow saw. |