Katesa Schlosser

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Mat weaving on wooden frames

Mrs Selina Sebenzile Zulu works at the front side of the frame.

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.

Small girls with bead girdles, one with a frontal apron from beads, isigege, and a little boy.

Three more girls with iziheshe

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.

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.

Thatching a granary

The woman fixes the grass with grass ropes.

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

Mtholeni Nyandeni, born 1910,died about 1993, a medicine man and friend of Laduma Madela

As F 10/22.

Mtholeni Nyandeni, born 1910,died about 1993, a medicine man and friend of Laduma Madela

Nyandeni from behind.

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.

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.

Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain

Another girl puts the load on her head.

Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain

The girl has risen.

Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain

Kneeling the girl has put the load on her head

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.

Girls fetching firewood on Ceza mountain

Girls use to collect firewood in groups. They fix the large bundles of wood with grass ropes.

Enoch (Enoki) Zulu from Ngalonde

Alzina's weaving material-umuzi stalks, twisted umuzi skin, and wool for eating mats, izithebe.

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.

Enoch (Enoki) Zulu from Ngalonde

Enoch's potrait in profile, with impressive crane feathers in his head band, umqhele.

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.

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