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| Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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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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| Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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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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| A view of the town and Island of St Helena (B) |
Black and white scene of St Helena. |
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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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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |
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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |
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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |
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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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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |
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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |
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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |
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| Miscellaneous overseas conferences 1937-1972 |
Dr Malherbe |