Katesa Schlosser
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Mbongeleni Dlakude, Laduma's grandson |
Laduma's grandson Mbongeleni Dlakude, son of Laduma's daughter Alexina, hold the goat's throat with a rope. |
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Susa Madela |
When Laduma decided to honour me with a ''feather'', uphaphe, as the inflated gall bladder of a goat is called, Susa became obliged to praise the ancestors he bein Laduma's social father and nominally the kraal head, umnumzane. |
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Necklet from the black seeds of the wild chesnut tree |
Susa was extremely jealous that his younger brother Laduma had to a certain extent become famous by K. Schlosser's book '' Zauberei im Zululand''. He wanted to kill me through lighting. |
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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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The right side of Laduma's outfit. |
The right side of Laduma's outfit. His hat is decorated on the right side with two wing ends of the red-winged starling, Onychognathus morio morio. |
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The left side of Laduma's outfit. |
The left side of Laduma's outfit. Laduma holds the spear now upright for demostration. his hat is from narrow pieces of genet skin at the front and at the back and both sides from the skin of the red Duiker. |
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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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Shembe Church member,amakhosazana, eKuphakameni, 1953 |
Shembe church members, amakhosazana, eKuphakameni, 1953 |
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Portrait of Laduma Madela |
Laduma is partly dressed like a war doctor. |
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Shembe Church member, amakhosazana, eKuphakameni, 1953 |
Shembe church members, amakhosazana, eKuphakameni, 1953 |
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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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Potrait of Ldumas's favourite Ziphelaphi |
Portrait of Laduma's favourite Ziphelaphi. |
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Portrait Laduma's and Bafungile's daughter |
Ladumas's and Bafungile's daughter Jingekwenza Alexina. |
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Portrait of Laduma's wife Bafungile |
Portrait of Laduma's wife Bafungile |
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Madela;s right arm |
Madela's right arm with the armlt and weistlet from the metatarsia of the Natal forest duiker-buck, impithi. |
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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'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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Portrait of Laduma Madela |
Concerning his neck-band, umqhele, from serval skin, and his wristlet from duiker metatarsia cf. his frontal apron, isinene, is made by himself, according to the type idlaka, from black and brown calf skin. |
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Portrait of Laduma Madela |
Portrait of Laduma Madela |
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Nqahile having disappeared the ladies are now without bras |
Nqahile having disappeared the ladies are now without bras. Laduma carries not only his knobstaff as before but additionally a large shield. Ziphelaphi carries a small dance shield. |