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
Performer: Joyce Dlamini, a 12-year-old Swati girl, Standard V; she also performed 2S-1358, 1359, 1360, 1361,1377, 1378, and 1380 Place: In a house at the kraal of Albert Dlamini, 8:30 …
Swati
Performer: A Zulu man, 25-30 years old; he also performed 2S-1794, 1797, 1929, and 1930 Place: In a house in another kraal (the house of Lena Mkhonza, the 35-year-old Zulu …
Swati
Performer: A Swati man, about 18 years old; he also performed 2S-1263 Place: Outside, in a kraal, 8:30 am Audience: Four women, five children, all Swati
Xhosa
Time: About 1 pm Place: Outside, along a path in Ngwegweni Location, Mount Ayliff District Storyteller: A Xesibe woman / She is about 45 years old Audience: Ten women, two …
Xhosa
Performer: A Gcaleka woman, about thirty years old Place: Outside, near a kraal Audience: Ten women, four men, twenty children and teenagers
Zulu
Time: About 12:30 pm Place: In the Ndlebe part of Mahlabatini District (officially called, by the government, Mahlabatini District Reserve No. 20), a mountainous area, in a region occupied mainly …
Zulu
Time: About 1 pm Place: Along a path in Mahlabatini District Speaker: A Zulu man, a Buthelezi / He is about 70 years old The Umlando Audience: One woman, six …
Xhosa
Time: About 3:30 pm Place: In another home in Guse Location, Elliotdale District Storyteller: A Bomvana girl / She is about 16 years old Audience: Twenty women, three men, ten …
Xhosa
Time: 9 pm Speaker: Eliza Mrwala / Mpondomise / About 60 years old Commentary: / Comments about the early years of St. Cuthbert's Audience: Octavius Mbalo in Mrs. Mrwala's home
Xhosa
Performer: Nomonde, a Xesibe girl; she is 12 years old; she also performed 2S-352 Place: Outside, in Mount Ayliff, 4 pm Audience: About forty children and adults, Xesibe and Bhaca