Katesa Schlooser
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| Women carrying a basket of the type "isiqabetho", Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
Women carrying a basket of the type "isiqabetho", Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
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| Woman with a bottle on her head, Maputa school children, 12 June 1959 |
Woman with a bottle on her head, Maputa school children, 12 June 1959 |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Visit to Father Elmar Kimmel, O.S.B. on Nandi Mission from the Benedictine Diocese of Eshowe. Velabengasho and Mbhekeni had announced our arrival at Nandi Mission by blowing the ox horn trumpet made by Laduma (cf. Susa, page 32). |
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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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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Bhekamandla, Susa and Laduma with their medicine horns in front of their portraits. That one of Laduma the author had taken in 1977. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma on Bafungile's bed in ceremonial dress. In his crown from genet skin various feathers, among them one ostritch feather. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
In Bafungile's house. Susa looks at his portrait which the author had taken on 31st March 1979. He played to be schpcked by "this fearful man". ("Der einbeinige Gott", colour plate XXI) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa Madela dressed up as the priest of the Madela family whose duty it is to praise the ancestors. He wears a red Lourie feather and in his pierced earlobe a horn smeared inside with anti-lighting medicine. He stands in front of Bafungile's house. (Cf. "Susa", plate 25 and p.53) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa \'s son in law who had paid 18 cows for Susa's daughter starts to perform war dances. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa with his eldest daughter, her husband and their grandchild |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Imibengo, i.e. a stripes of meat cut zigzag, which played an important role in a prophecy of Mvelinqangi. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma carries the imibengo on a wooden tray isithebe. Observe the way of his holding the tray |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
The fullfilment of Mvelinqani's prophesy! (Cf. "Susa", plate 24 top, and p. 52; in "Zulu Mythology", colour plate 4 bottom.) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Mbongeleni wears the cloth from F6/2a over the beaded waistcoat which Alexina once had made for her fiance.(Cf. Handwerke", plates 106 bottom right and plate bottom) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Arrived for dances in Laduma's kraal: the kraalhead Hlangabeza Zulu with feather crown, isidlukula, from turkey feathers. His frontal apron is from genet and Large-spotted genet. (Cf."Handwerke", plate 77 and pp.188; not as there: March 1979.) |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Susa's children from his wife Dumaza: Sithupha Fihlokwakhe Zithukeleni, Emelinah Madela Mbatha and Bhekamandla Madela. In the background Sithupha's husband |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Sithupha's husband Maqhubandaba Mbatha in his uniform as a police man, with handcuffs in his belt. He wears a red Lourie feathers in his hair. With grandchild. |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
An albino woman and the isangoma Khulumile Khumalo |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Mdlokombana Zulu dressed for the dances. He wears a red Laurie feathers in his hair and an ostrich feather coloured blue in an armlet. His dancing stick is beaded. (Cf. in black/white in "Madelas Tierleben",p.291 |
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| Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in September and October 1979 with a festival on 30th September |
Laduma's eldest sister Merica (according to her membership in an American sect) joined the festival |