Selections from the Harold E. Scheub Collection
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dr. Harold Scheub was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature and one of the world's leading scholars in African oral traditions and folklore. To record oral traditions he walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. Dr. Scheub published more than two dozen books and more than 70 articles.
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Swati
Time: About 2:30 pm Place: In a home on the slope of a mountain in Nyaniso Location, Matatiele District Storyteller: A Hlubi woman / She is about 70 years old …
Zulu
Time: About 3:30 pm Place: Outside, along a path in the Ndwandwe section of Mahlabatini District Storyteller: A Zulu woman, a Ndwandwe / She is about 35 years old / …
Xhosa
Performer: A thirty-year-old Gcaleka woman . She also performed 2S-86, 87, 90 Place: In a home in Nkanga, 11 am Audience: Four women, three men, three children
Swati
Performer: A Zulu woman; she is about 25 years old; she also performed 2S-1724, 1885, 1887, and 1893 Place: In a home in another area of Zombodze, noon Audience: One …
Xhosa
Performer: A Gcaleka woman, 30 or 35 years old Place: In the home of Nohatyula Miyeki Audience: Two women, two teenaged girls, six children; later, one man Notes: She also …
Swati
Performer: Enoch Dlamini, a Swati man, about 40 years old; he also performed 2S- 1572, 1573, 1574, 1575, 1576, 1578, 1590, 1592, 1595, 1598, 1600, 1602, 1604, 1605, 1607, 1610, …
Zulu
Time: About 3 pm Place: In a remote home in the mountains in the Ceza- Echibini part of Mahlabatini District, the Buthelezi area, rain Storyteller: A Zulu woman, a Buthelezi …
Swati
Performer: A Swati woman; she is about 30 years old; she also performed 2S-1639, 1645, and 1646 Place: Outside, in his kraal, 8 am Audience: Three women, two men, five …
Swati
Performer: Aaron Khalishwayo, a Swati boy; he also performed 2S-1689, 1693, 1697, 1731, 1732, 1837, 1848, 1850, 1852, 1857, 1903, 1904, and 1913 Place: Outside, near Ngwane Central Secondary School, …
Xhosa
Time: About 1 pm Place: Between one part of Nculu Location (the part nearest the town of Ngqamakhwe) and another (above five miles away), at a pool where three Mfengu …