Laduma Madela
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
A son of Susa "giyas" with knobkerrie in his left hand and a knobkerrie, a shield and the spear from F17/17 in his right hand. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Same situation as F17/3 and F17/6. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Same situation as F.17/3. From left to right: Mbabazeni's daughter Nqahile, Totoyi, Suasa, a son of Susa, Susa' s son in law Maqhubandaba Mbatha, Mashingeni Khumalo. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
In Bafungile's house. On the last day of the author's stay in April 1979 the Madelas and Ziphelapi thanked the author for the flight and honoured her with beer, utshwal, and dances. From left to right: Ziphelaphi, Susa' wife Totoyi and Susa(drinking). Cf. "Susa", plate 22 bottom and p.51 |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma sits on Bafungile's bed in front of "Zauberei im Zululand" and Die Bantubibel des Blitzzauberers Laduma Madela" and many albums with photos by the author in his kraal. He wears a necklace of roughly made wooden beads (made by himself). |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Little girls from Laduma's kraal fetch water for washing in a canal leading downhill from well. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Ziphelaphi, Susa, Laduma, Mr. Bob Redman (Administrator of Ceza Hospital) and the pilot Mr. Sanders in front of the Piper on Vryheid Air Port |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Sarturday before Easter Sunday 1979: Ziphelaphi and Laduma in front of the Piper which the author had hired at Vryheid for a round flight. Unfortunately the weather was bad so that it was impossible to fly over the Madelas' kraal. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Good Friday 1979: Madela presents a spear of the type isijula which he had forged and treated with medicines to three men who had ordered it. They intended to kill with it a " baboon", be it an animal or a human baboon, who used to milk their cows at might. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Medicines for provoking death by magic, umbhulelo. Top: A. 7cm long twig of the small shrub umbheza, andrachne ovalis. Madela also calls it umgwazucaca, i.e. "He who kills to such and extent that dead people lie around everywhere-- left: Blood from umdlebe, ca. 3x3 cm, i.e. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma with the "wild calabash"/"Ghost calabash", isigubhu somoya, made from a hollowed out wart pumpkin, unkonko. It was still "clean", i.e. without medicine. In order to catch the wind or to provoke strong wind it has to be filled with medicine. (cf. "Medicinen", plate 13, right and pp. |
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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 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. |