Katesa Schlosser
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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 |
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 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. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Velabengasho Khumalo and his wife Gabajana Mhlongo Khumalo in ceremonial dress/ festival attire. Velabengasho has red Lourie feathers in his hair. Gabajana's topknot is a wig decorated with bead ornaments. The lower one is a token of respect to her in-laws, umnqwazi. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Arrived for dances in Laduma's kraal: the kraalhead Hlangabeza Zulu with feather crown, isidlukula, from turkey feathers. His frontal apron is from genet and Large-spotted genet. (Cf."Handwerke", plate 77 and pp.188; not as there: March 1979.) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Mbongeleni wears the cloth from F6/2a over the beaded waistcoat which Alexina once had made for her fiance.(Cf. Handwerke", plates 106 bottom right and plate bottom) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Alexina's son Mbongeleni Dlakude with a white cotton cloth which his mother decorated with glass bead ornaments and with metal bells. (Cf. "Handwerke", plate 106 bottom left, and pp.106/107.) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
The fullfilment of Mvelinqani's prophesy! (Cf. "Susa", plate 24 top, and p. 52; in "Zulu Mythology", colour plate 4 bottom.) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma carries the imibengo on a wooden tray isithebe. Observe the way of his holding the tray |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Imibengo, i.e. a stripes of meat cut zigzag, which played an important role in a prophecy of Mvelinqangi. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa with his eldest daughter, her husband and their grandchild |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa \'s son in law who had paid 18 cows for Susa's daughter starts to perform war dances. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma's daughter Alexina, married Dlakude, starts to cover a wrangler waistcoat with glass bead ornaments. The author had bought both waistcoat and beads. She never got the waistcoat. In 1985/86 Alexina pretended it to have been stolen.(Cf. "Handwerke", plate 106 top and pp.106, 107) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Visit to Father Elmar Kimmel, O.S.B. on Nandi Mission from the Benedictine Diocese of Eshowe. Velabengasho and Mbhekeni had announced our arrival at Nandi Mission by blowing the ox horn trumpet made by Laduma (cf. Susa, page 32). |
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| Woman carrying bananas on her head and her baby on the back, Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
Woman carrying bananas on her head and her baby on the back, Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
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| Woman with a bottle on her head, Maputa school children, 12 June 1959 |
Woman with a bottle on her head, Maputa school children, 12 June 1959 |
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| Women carrying a basket of the type "isiqabetho", Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
Women carrying a basket of the type "isiqabetho", Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
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| Young boys, "izikhonzi", Shembe church, eKuphakameni, 1953 |
Young boys, "izikhonzi", shembe church, eKuphakameni, 1953 |