Sue Schuessler Collection

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.

1999.12.004 Drum 24 cm wide	1999.12.005 Wooden Bowl 8 cm high 24 cm wide	1999.12.006 Wisk 53 cm long 3 cm wide	1999.12.007 Ceramic Vase 19 cm high 22 cm wide
1999.12.008 a Seed Pod Rattle 115 cm long 4 cm wide	1999.12.008 b Seed Pod Rattle 115 cm long 4 cm wide	1999.12.011 Gourd Container 29 cm high10 cm wide	1999.12.012 Drum 57 cm high 31 cm wide
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.
1999.12.014 Gourd Container	1999.12.015 Gourd Container	1999.12.016 Axe 65 cm long 8 cm wide	1999.12.017 Staff 74 cm long 3 cm wide
1999.12.018 Spear 110 cm long 3 cm wide	1999.12.019 Spear 58 cm long 3 cm wide	1999.12.020 Rattle 31 cm long 11 cm wide	1999.12.021 a&b Wrist Ornaments 26 cm total
FF 1999.12.022 a&b Wrist Ornaments 6 cm wide & 6.75 cm wide