Mkhafuleni with a frontal apron, isinene, from stripes of leopard skin and black calf skin, and with four bandoliers from glass beads. Cf. "Der einbeinige Gott", colour plate XIX)

The mother of Mxoveni, Velabengasho and Mkhafuleni Khumalo. Her name was Qhamkile ka Makhoba Khumalo. She was an isamgoma, a diviner. Her top knot is a wig. Her bandolier of respect, isikhafulo, is worked in crochet. Her skirt is from blackened neat's leather.

Mkhafuleni with his first wife. He wears a great dance crown from the winter-feathers of isakabula, the long tailed widow-bird, Diatrpus progne (Robert, no. 818)

Laduma Madela accompanied the bride's party and blew his horn in order to ask permission for the bride's party to enter the bridegroom's kraal for the wedding.

After the religious ceremony the bridegroom changed into traditional skin dress, partly, however supplied by perlon plush and plastic (bandoliers and head dress). In his head ornament a coloured crane feather.

Portrait of Thembani Alexina Dlamini Khumalo. Below the topkot she wears a band white beads with some coloured ornaments, umnqwazi, a token of respect she ows to her in-laws.

Thembani whole figure. On top of her matrimonial skirt, isidwaba, from leather she wears a black cotton apron with glass bead ornaments. On the back and over the shoulders she has a transparent black shawl. Her bag is decorated with much beadwork.

Thembani, to the left, and the First wife of her brother-in-law Mkhafuleni Khumalo.(Her name was known to Laduma Madela)

Bhidli's granary, Ziphelaphi left and Bafungile Khumalo-Madela, Laduma's wife (right). Bafungile (at that time about 66 years old), wears a neklace from the cones of Casuarina equisetifolia (Casuarinaceae).