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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Zulu
Time: About 9:30 am Place: Outside, in a mealies field near border of the Ndebele-Ndwandwe-Sibiya sections in Mahlabatini District Storyteller: A Zulu woman, a Ndwandwe / She is about 65 …
Xhosa
Time: About 8 pm Place: In a home in Mboxo (Nkanga) Location, Gatyana District--it is dark and the children are being told stories before they go to bed Storyteller: A …
Zulu
Time: About 1 pm Place: In another home in the Biyela part of Entonjaneni District, in the Biyela area Storyteller: A Zulu woman, a Biyela / She is about 65 …
Zulu
Time: About 9 am Place: In a kraal in Upper Hlabathi Location, Lusikisiki District Storyteller: A Cele woman / She is about 45 years old / She also performed 1S-941 …
Zulu
Performer: Umvuyana Nkwenyana, a Zulu man (Biyela), about 80 years old; he also performed 2S-568, 570, 572, 573, 595, 596, 597, 730, 816, and 820 Place: In another home, 12:30 …
Xhosa
Time: About 9 am Place: In a home in Caca Location, Engcobo District Storyteller: A Thembu woman / She is about 60 years old / She also performed 1S-2726 Audience: …
Xhosa
Performer: Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, a Gcaleka woman Place: Outside the home of Masithathu Zenani, about 3 pm Audience: The audience is now composed of four women, two men, six teen-aged …
Xhosa
Time: 5:15 pm Singer: Mpondomise men and women / About thirty women, twenty men, people regularly coming and going / Headman Lungelo Mditshwa also present Songs: / The owner of …
Xhosa
Performer: Nongenile Masithathu Zenani Place: In her home Audience: Not noted Notes: See note under 3S-246
Xhosa
Performer: A Gcaleka woman, about 30 years old Place: Outside, near her home, 9 am Audience: Ten men and women, ten children