Katesa Schlosser

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Madela with 3 bandoliers

Madela with 3 bandoliers.

Madela winds the stripes round a packthread.

Madela winds the stripes round a packthread.

Madela sews one stripe to the other

Madela with a cotton string, Madela sews one stripes to the other to get a longer stripe.

Madela cuts off the second half of the different stripes.

Madela cuts off the second half of the different stripes.

Madela making bandoliers, omabani, from a Nutria skin

Madela making bandoliers, omabani, from a Nutria skin K. Schlosser had brought from Kiel. his grandson Phila Madela stretches the skin.

The underskin of the porcupine skin

The underside of the porcupine skin.

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.

Laduma and Alexina

Laduma Madela and Alexina

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.

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

Portrait of Laduma Madela

Portrait of Laduma Madela.

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.

Shembe Church members," married women", eKuphakameni, 1959

Shembe church members, "married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member,"married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members, "married women" eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member, married woman, eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members, married woman, eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member, ama twenty five, eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members, "ama twenty five", eKuphakameni, 1953

Zionists just outside from Laduma's kraal

A Zionist priest, with the crucifix on his chest, two Zionist women, and a girl with Zionist drum near Laduma Madela's kraal.

The skin of the goat pegged

The skin of the goat ha been pegged in Laduma's kraal.

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

Mbongeleni has cut the goat's throat with a knife

While a son of Laduma's half brother Mbabazeni later on holds the goat, Mbongeleni has cut the goat's throat with a knife.

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