Sue Schuessler
Sue Schuessler Collection # 1999.12.1996, 22 objects, 9 photos, videos, fieldnotes.
This 1996-7 collection from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe has 28 artifacts including: drums, leg rattles, ritual skirts, shawls, a headpiece, a medicine basket, a painting of becoming a n'anga healer, a clay pot & stirring stick, 9 photographs & videofilm. These artifacts are drawn from the life and work of the sangoma healer and her associates with whom Dr. Schuessler lived for a year while conducting research on her dissertation The Children of the Crocodile: Grieving and Healing in Southwestern Zimbabwe, 2001.
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1999.12.005
Wooden Bowl
8 cm high 24 cm wide
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Seed Pod Rattle
115 cm long 4 cm wide
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1999.12.011
Gourd Container
29 cm high10 cm wide
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1999.12.009
73 cm high 93 cm wide
nanga healer
By an artist of the Weya Women's Painting Cooperative
Becoming a N'anga Healer
... what the artist said about the painting
"The women are taking the children and going to the river to wash. While the women are washing and the children are playing in the water, a river spirit takes one. A boy and girl go home to tell the others. The parents go to the n'anga (healer) for advice. At the n'anga's home, they are told to brew beer. The women are bringing firewood, and others are carrying buckets of [water for making beer]. The other one is stirring the large container to prepare the beer. They are now going to the river with the n'anga.
At the river the n'anga threw in some medicine and the boy comes out. He is now a n'anga and the people are happy.
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1999.12.018
Spear
110 cm long 3 cm wide
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