Katesa Schlosser
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Mat weaving on wooden frames |
Mrs Selina Sebenzile Zulu works at the front side of the frame. |
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A collector of medicine plants: Laduma Madela's friend Seven Khumalo |
Seven was of very small stature. In spite of this he was feared as a great fighter with his knobkerrie. Here he comes from the top of Ceza mountain where he had collected barks and roots. |
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Small girls with bead girdles, one with a frontal apron from beads, isigege, and a little boy. |
Three more girls with iziheshe |
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Small girls with bead girdles, one with a frontal apron from beads, isigege, and a little boy. |
One more girl with isiheshe, another girl with isigege, and a little boy with small frontal apron from skin, ilibele, and a bandolier of beads. The picture was taken in the kraal of a murderer who was healed by Laduma Madela from his aggressiveness. |
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Small girls with bead girdles, one with a frontal apron from beads, isigege, and a little boy. |
A young mother with a baby and four little girls. As a shawl of respect, isihlonipho, the woman wears a bandolier of beads. Three little girls wear girdles of loos hanging strings of beads, iziheshe. One girl has an oblong apron from beads, isigege. |
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Thatching a granary |
The woman fixes the grass with grass ropes. |
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Thatching a granary |
In a kraal next to Laduma Madela's. A woman is about to fix the thatch grass on a granary. She mounts the top of the hut with a ladder |
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Mtholeni Nyandeni, born 1910,died about 1993, a medicine man and friend of Laduma Madela |
As F 10/22. |
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Mtholeni Nyandeni, born 1910,died about 1993, a medicine man and friend of Laduma Madela |
Nyandeni from behind. |
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Mtholeni Nyandeni, born 1910,died about 1993, a medicine man and friend of Laduma Madela |
Nyandeni full size. Round his upper arms and under the knees he wears ubusenga from iron wire round horse hairs and covered with beads of aluminium. |
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Mtholeni Nyandeni, born 1910,died about 1993, a medicine man and friend of Laduma Madela |
Nyandeni potrait in profile. In his head band from jackal skin are crane feathers. |
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Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain |
Another girl puts 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 |
Kneeling the girl has put the load on her head |
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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 |
Girls use to collect firewood in groups. They fix the large bundles of wood with grass ropes. |
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Enoch (Enoki) Zulu from Ngalonde |
Alzina's weaving material-umuzi stalks, twisted umuzi skin, and wool for eating mats, izithebe. |
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Enoch (Enoki) Zulu from Ngalonde |
Enoch Zulu's mother Alzina Mqoshwana Zulu starts to weave an eating mat, isithebe, from umuzi, Cyperus sexangularis. Left : a bundle of umuzi. |
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Enoch (Enoki) Zulu from Ngalonde |
Enoch's potrait in profile, with impressive crane feathers in his head band, umqhele. |
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Enoch (Enoki) Zulu from Ngalonde |
Same situation as F 1a/1. Enoch in profile. his rear apron, ibheshu, is from black and white calf skin. He wears side tails from skin, izinjobo. |