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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with his stuff for healing, induku yokwelapha, with the hand of an antbear, isambane, as a crook. (Medizinen, plate 19, pp.92, 93) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with a magical powerful necklace, iziqu, from the cones of casuarina equisetifolia (casuarinaceae) which the author had bought in 1977 from the Santa Lucia Bay. The pendant is a container, umfece, for snuff-medicine, carved by Laduma Madela from the wood of umthombo. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma in front of the tree Clerodendrum glabrum (Verbenaceae in his neighbour's Mashingeni Khumal kraal. It is a tree which is said never to be striken by lightning. From its branches the lightning-rods are made. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela with the ladle for fetching the clouds during a thunderstorm, "ukuphaka izulu" (to ladle out-as food-the heaven) Cf. "Medizinen", plate 14 and pp. 84, 85. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The round stone from the river smeared both flat sides crosswise with black anti-lightning medicine |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela has the rod in his left hand and the stone in his right hand. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma demonstrate how he prevents the lightning to strke his kraal by means of a lightning-rod partly smeared with anti-lightning medicine. Madela turns slowly to the four quarters of the globe pointing with the rod towards the heaven. He changes the hands in which he holds the rod. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Hlomeleni Madela, Laduma's unmarried daughter, takes the chance to expose her little granddaughter to smoke of "wild animals"= inyamazane, to make the baby strong and healthy. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
In Bafungile's house: Two healing methods combined, "inyamazane" and " chasing awya evat ghost or evil spirit" 1. "Inyamazane"= wild animals (remains) i.e. inhale smoke of small parts of burned animals, especially antelops, put in potsherd. This method is called "ukuhogela", i.e. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma, sitting on Bafungile's bed, scraping goat horns to prepare them as medicine containers. He works them on a wooden head rest, turned upside down. In the foreground a very low table with one of the two armlets Madela is preparing from genet skin. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The skin of the ox slaughtered on 30th March and the skin of a goat pegged in front of Bafungile's house. To the right Ziphelaphi. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
A plant protecting Laduma's smithy against lightning-speciallly that sent by his brother Susa.(Cf. "Susa", plate 10, bottom, pp.40/41.) This plant is a species of the Wild Passionflower, impindamshaye ("hit back"), Adenia gummifera(Harv.) Harms. |
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| View of Tupapow |
Black and white scene of a Shed of Tupapow in Otaheire. |
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| View of the Island of Bourou |
Black and white scene of the Island of Bourou taken from the road view. |
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| View of Swaziland |
View of Swaziland |
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| View of Swaziland |
View of Swaziland |
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| View of Swaziland? |
View of Swaziland? |
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| View of Swaziland? |
View of Swaziland |
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| View of Swaziland forest and mountain |
View of Swaziland forest and mountain |
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| View of a road in a Country Town |
Colorful scene of a road in country town with trees along it. |