Campbell Collections
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
In Bafungile' house. Laduma is resting on her bed. Ziphelaphi and Bafungile (only her yellow head cloth is visible) sit politely on mats on the floor. To the left are partly visible: the shafts of a battle axe and an inhlendla (cf. to follow: F22/28). |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Gumede, a son of Laduma's daughter Hlomeleni, arrives home from work in Johannesburg |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma Madela with a chief's mace called "inhlendla engamakhalengonyama", which looks like the nostrils of a lion. Not yet ready made. (cf. "Handwerke", plate 8 and 9, and pp.108-111; Der einbeinige Gott, colour plate XXIII.) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
View from above Laduma Madela's kraal, which is in the centre. To the left of the small road leading to it is the kraal of Mashingeni Khumalo. Uphill from there, to the left, is the kraal of Laduma's daughter Alexina with two rondavels and a rectangular house. (Cf. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
On the day after the festival beer is brought from Velabengasho' kraal and is received with dances. The dancers from left to right: a son of Mbabazeni Madela, Laduma, Velabengasho, Mbhekeni Mhlongo's mothers (in the foreground, Mbhekeni... |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
In Bafungile's house. Susa shows Merica the photo albums the author had sent Laduma. On the floor sits a man of extremely low rank who tries to get some food everywhere. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Born by one and the same mother: Suasa, Merica, Laduma. Merica was proud of having carried Laduma when he was a baby on her back. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma's eldest sister Merica (according to her membership in an American sect) joined the festival |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Feasting on oxmeat dipped in coarse white salt. To the left Seven Khumalo. Another man cuts the meat strips zigzag into imibengo |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Another young man dressed up. Behind his shield from oxhide a protection from the hand expanded plastics. His knobkerries is of the type isagila.(Cf."Madelas Tierleben", p.290.) In black and white. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Mdlokombana Zulu dressed for the dances. He wears a red Laurie feathers in his hair and an ostrich feather coloured blue in an armlet. His dancing stick is beaded. (Cf. in black/white in "Madelas Tierleben",p.291 |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
An albino woman and the isangoma Khulumile Khumalo |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Sithupha's husband Maqhubandaba Mbatha in his uniform as a police man, with handcuffs in his belt. He wears a red Lourie feathers in his hair. With grandchild. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa's children from his wife Dumaza: Sithupha Fihlokwakhe Zithukeleni, Emelinah Madela Mbatha and Bhekamandla Madela. In the background Sithupha's husband |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Alexina, Totoyi and ? with the contents of the stomach. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Mbekiseni Mthethwa, the son of Laduma's daughter Celani, with raw imibengo, i.e. zigzagwise incised meat strings |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Medicines for provoking death by magic, umbhulelo. Top: A. 7cm long twig of the small shrub umbheza, andrachne ovalis. Madela also calls it umgwazucaca, i.e. "He who kills to such and extent that dead people lie around everywhere-- left: Blood from umdlebe, ca. 3x3 cm, i.e. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
One of Mbabazeni Madela's sons with the ox's spleen. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Good Friday 1979: Madela presents a spear of the type isijula which he had forged and treated with medicines to three men who had ordered it. They intended to kill with it a " baboon", be it an animal or a human baboon, who used to milk their cows at might. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The kraal of Mbuyiseleni Mthethwa far away from Laduma Madela's kraal on Ceza Mountain where the ox by the name of Batomu was bought |