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Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

The little girl standing besides the large beer vessel.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

Another little daughter of Mkhafuleni carrying a baby.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

Mkhafuleni's Great Hut. On the chair in front of it sits Ziphelaphi Mhlongo Madide.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

The very little ox defeinitivey spread by Mkhafuleni himself  after much spearing without killing. The meat of the ox belongs to the girls of the bride's party who stand around the ox.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

In Mkhafuleni's Great Hut. No more medicines were there. Mkhafuleni had the Zionests and had-at least officially-thrown away his medicines. The large beer vessel(1979/II, F12/II, F12/35 and F12/36) was in another hut. The floor was covered with green grass. There was beer drinking in the hut.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

A man drinks beer out of a calabash with which he had drawn the beer from the ukhamba. He holds a plate under the calabash as a drip-catcher. The beer pot is covered with a beer pot cover, imbenge, to prevent the beer from being poisoned by witch, and against insects.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

A woman drinking in the same way as the man from F3/3. It is extremely unusual that the beer pot is not covered.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

The bride in her hut together with the girl who accompanied her to her new home and would stay here permanently to make her feel more homely-After the ceremony

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo

These tiny piece of the ox meat have to be put under the bride's sleeping mat in order that she might become superior above her husband.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mxoveni Khumalo

During the weeding ceremony bride and bridegroom showed-according to Zulu custom-sad faces. Especially the bride has demonstrate her own sorrow for leaving her family. For the Zionist wedding bride and bridegroom are dressed in a modern way.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mxoveni Khumalo

We are leaving Mxoveni's wedding in time before rain started. To the left Laduma' favourite wife Ziphelaphi Mhlongo. On her white woolen cap a feather from a guinea fowl demonstrating her being a medicine woman. This feather brings good luck.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Thembani Alexina Dlamini-Khumalo

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.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Thembani Alexina Dlamini-Khumalo

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. As F14/4

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Thembani Alexina Dlamini-Khumalo

Thembani from behind. The black shawl has a broad edge from white glass beads. Beneath it she wears a rear apron from black material with a very broad edge of white glass beads.

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Thembani Alexina Dlamini-Khumalo

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

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Thembani Alexina Dlamini-Khumalo

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

Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Ziphelaphi and Bafungile 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).

Girl with ornamental incisions on her belly, Maputa, 12 June 1959

Girl with ornamental incisions on her belly, Maputa, 12 June 1959

Granaries, Maputa huts, 12 June 1959

Granaries, Maputa huts, 12 June 1959

House with a wall similar to that of F18-15

Maputa house or hut (Thongaland hut) similar to F18-15

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