An iNtfwasa graduation Ceremony in 1972 - Day 2

Kufemba on a boy

A newly qualified tangoma, brushes an anxious small boy with a “sizinga”, a special brush with which she “smells out” evil spirits that may reside his body, “sneezing” the spirit body out when it is found. She is fitted out with an “umfembi”, a device that contains ritual objects, among others the nose of a hyena, an animal with a keen sense of smell.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Sun Nov 26, 1972
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