Katesa Schlosser

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Madela winds the stripes round a packthread.

Madela winds the stripes round a packthread.

Madela sews one stripe to the other

Madela with a cotton string, Madela sews one stripes to the other to get a longer stripe.

Madela cuts off the second half of the different stripes.

Madela cuts off the second half of the different stripes.

Madela making bandoliers, omabani, from a Nutria skin

Madela making bandoliers, omabani, from a Nutria skin K. Schlosser had brought from Kiel. his grandson Phila Madela stretches the skin.

The underskin of the porcupine skin

The underside of the porcupine skin.

Laduma with the skin of a porcupine the quills of which are used by the medicine men

Laduma with the skin of a porcupine the quills of which are used by the medicine man for many purposes, e.g for the inoculation of medicines, for fighting the lighting doctor.

Laduma and Alexina

Laduma Madela and Alexina

Laduma Madela now wearing a sun helmet with his daughter Alexina

Laduma Madela now wearing a sun helmet with his daughter Alexina to his right and two girls, all in Zionist gowns.

Laduma Madela dressed like a Zionist.

Laduma Madela dressed like a Zionist though he insisted to be no Zionist. Probably he dressed like that to please that part of his family which belonged to the Zionists

Portrait of Laduma Madela

Portrait of Laduma Madela.

Laduma presents the book "Medizinen des Blitzzauberers Laduma Madela"

Madela presents the book " Medizinen des Blitzzauberers Laduma Madela" which had been plublished in 1984. The shorter necklace is from the black fruits of the wild chestnut tree and vertebrae of the python. The longer necklace is from the vertebrae of another snake.

Shembe church members, children selling pictures of Josaiah and Johannes Galilee Shembe, eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members, children selling pictures of Josaiah and Johannes Galilee Shembe, eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member, children selling "amavovo", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church, children selling pictures of Josiah and Johannes Galilee Shembe, and beerstrainers (amavovo)

Shembe Church, a kitchen or "ixhiba", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church, a kitchen / "ixhiba", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member,"baptism", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members, "baptism", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member, "married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members, "married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church members," married women", eKuphakameni, 1959

Shembe church members, "married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church members, married women, eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members "married women" eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church members, "married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members,"married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe Church member, "married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

Shembe church members,"married women", eKuphakameni, 1953

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