Laduma Madela
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Bhidli Mhlongo |
On the way from Laduma Madela's kraal to Bhidli's kraal. From left to right: Ziphelaphi Mhlongo, Laduma Madela, Eric Khwela as interpreter. Ziphelaphi and eric Khwela carry my outfit. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Bhidli Mhlongo |
With a pocket knife Madela cuts off those bones of the joints of the metatarsia which are used for dividing as dices (amathambo "bones). |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Bhidli Mhlongo |
The two ankle bones have been placed on the meat tray while Madela continues to work. His neck-band is from leopard skin. The Creator, Mvelinqangi, had told him to wear it. His necklaces are better seen on F19/20. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Bhidli Mhlongo |
Madela strikes with a stone as a hammer on a butcher's knife in order to cut off the epiphysis from the metatarsus of a hind foot which is placed on a large stone |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Bhidli Mhlongo |
Bhidli, Laduma and Eric Khwela eat from the goat's liver from the meat tray on which there is also coarse white salt, into which the pieces of the liver were dipped.Bhidli wers in the middle of his headring the head skin of a cata (which one?) and behind it two red Lourie feathers. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Bhidli Mhlongo |
Laduma Madela in Bhidli's private hut. In front of him a meat tray with part of the boiled goar's meat covered with another, smaller meat tray. Madela in one of the typical Zulu men's sitting positions. |
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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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| 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 |
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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 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. |
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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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| 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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| Laduma's new kraal and his private hut |
Laduma's new kraal and his private hut. The Zulu lightning doctor Laduma Madela in 1977 |
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| Portrait of Laduma Madela |
Portrait of Laduma Madela |
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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 |
Laduma is partly dressed like a war doctor. |
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| Portrait of Laduma Madela |
Portrait of Laduma Madela. |
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| Schlosser medizinen des blitzzauberers Laduma Madela, 16 |
Schlosser medizinen des blitzzauberers Laduma Madela, 16 |
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| Schlosser medizinen des blitzzauberers Laduma Madela, 20 |
Schlosser medizinen des blitzzauberers Laduma Madela, 20 |
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| Schlosser medizinen des blitzzauberers Laduma Madela, 21 |
Schlosser medizinen des blitzzauberers Laduma Madela, 21 |