Campbell Collections
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 6th 1979 |
To the left white wings from the Cattle Egret, ilanda, bubulcus ibis ( Roberts, no 61), and to the right white and grey wings from a stilt, isixulamasele ( "Frog catcher") Himantopus. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 6th 1979 |
People sitting below the wings from no V. 2nd from left Velabengasho's son ; to the utmost right = Velabengasho's wife. On a pole hanging on the wall: clothing, to the left a rear apron from skin.
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 6th 1979 |
Same situation as No. VII |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 6th 1979 |
Above the open door.( Cf. April 1979, pictures 4 and 5.) some shoulder blades of goats, a pair of tongs and a paint scrapper have been added. The abafana are missing. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 6th 1979 |
Velabengasho at the place of F 16/26. Above him the head of the Goliath heron. on the wall to the left on of his cardigans. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 5th 1979 |
Before slaughtering the goat Velabengasho praised the ancestors and asked them to protect me. He wears the uniform of a policeman. indeed he was a policeman of the local chief. his wife Gabajana is down on her knees as token of respect, hlonipha. Laduma Madela watches at the right side. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 5th 1979 |
Velabengasho himself started to skin the goat in order to secure proper parts of the skin for iminqwamba, the attribute og izangoma and even of Velabengasho as an inyanga ( medicine man). see " Hand-werke", plate 46. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 5th 1979 |
Velabengasho presents the meat of the goat on large wooden meat platters. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 5th 1979 |
As F 15/24 |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 5th 1979 |
In the umsamo, the holy back part of Velabengasho's Great hut: Velabengasho's great medicine horn from a female gemsbok, Oryx gazella, which he had inherited from his father. Behind it a black clay vessel, ukhamba, with medicines for ancestor worship. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979/II, i.e October 5th 1979 |
Similar to F 15/25, with wide angle objective. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
Mbhekeni Mhlongo and Velabengasho Khumalo standing in front of Velabengasho's cattle kraal. Some apparel in F. 11/25 and F 9/35. Velabengasho had added voluminious side tails, izinjobo, from the skin of the white-tailed Mongoose. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
The two men seen from behind. Mbhekeni's rear apron is from white calf skin. Velabengasho's rear apron is from Cheetah. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
Velabengasho's wife Gabajana Mhlongo in front of the cattle kraal. At the tops of the posts several cattle horns have been fastened to inform the ancestors ghost that the cattle had been killed in their honour. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
The rondavel to the left is Velabengasho's great hut in which the photos were taken. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
Velabengasho Khumalo (Left) and Mbhekeni Mhlongo in festive attire in Velabengasho's Great hut. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
Velabengasho's wife Gabajana Mhlongo serving the two friends beer, utshwala. As a sign of her high rank- due to her own wealth in cattle- she wears a red Louri feather. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
When I (Katesa) visited Velabengasho, being accompanied by Laduma and Susa Madela, Velabengasho asked his bones if we might see us again in the future. Two bones representing himself and me ''shook hands'', which he took as a good omen- Fortunately with right. |
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| Visit to Velabengasho in 1979, in April |
See F 10/1 |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Bafungile dressed up in an impressive way as the wife of s great medicine man, she herself being an inyangakazi, a female doctor. As bandolier of respect, isihlonipho, she wears a long chain of python bones, iziqu zenhlwathi. Such a bandolier was not observed by the author with any other women. |