Katesa Schlosser
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo |
On the way from Laduma Madela to Mkhafuleni Khumalo. To the left of a kraal is a cattle pen. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo |
Mkhafuleni with his mother |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo |
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. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo |
Mkhafuleni Khumalo in front of his cattle pen. Two horns of cattle have been put on the poles in order to show to the ancestors that the cattle have been slaughtered in their honour. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo |
Mkhafuleni demonstrate the way he fights the lightning: He stands near one of his anti-lightning posts=decayed trees which have crosses (not visible) made with red anti-lightning medicine. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo |
Mkhafuleni demonstrates his anti-lightning spear which had been forged by Laduma Madela. Later on Laduma told the author that Mkhafuleni was about to be initiated as a lightning doctor. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mxoveni Khumalo |
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. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mxoveni Khumalo |
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. |
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| Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Thembani Alexina Dlamini-Khumalo |
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. |
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| Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain |
Girls use to collect firewood in groups. They fix the large bundles of wood with grass ropes. |
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| Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain |
One of the girls with her load which still stands upright. The girl has protected her head with a coil which is not seen and is covered with cloth. |
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| Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain |
Kneeling the girl has put the load on her head |
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| Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain |
The girl has risen. |
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| Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain |
Another girl puts the load on her head. |
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| Headboy with musical instrument, Golela, July 1953 |
Headbpy with musical instrument, Golela, July 1953 |
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| House or hut between eucalyptus trees, Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
House or hut between eucalyptus trees, Maputa, 12 June 1959 |
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| Huts under construction at Ngalonde in 1986 |
The poles for the hut were placed into the ground. |
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| Huts under construction at Ngalonde in 1986 |
The start of the wicker work construction of a round hut. The door opening which is not seen, is to the utmost right. The flag on the high pole shows that a young man from the kraal succeeded in winning the love of a girl. In the background some maize fields. |
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| Huts under construction at Ngalonde in 1986 |
The wall of a rectangular hut under construction in wicker work. |
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| Ilala palm (Chamaerops) in the sandy plains between the Pongolo and Maputa. (Stumps cut to make traditional beer- utshwala), 12 June 1959 |
Ilala palms (Chamaerops) in the sandy plains between the Pongolo and Maputa. (Stumps cut to make traditional beer,) The juice flows from the stumps into a calabash. 12 June 1959 |