Sangoma and iNyanga - traditional healers of Swaziland
Two learner “tangoma” during a ceremony where the “emaNdzawe” (ancestral spirits of a people who died in battle against the Swazi, long ago in Mozambique) manifest themselves through them. They wear red cloths, symbolising the blood of the “emaNdzawe”, as in the colour of their hair, in “siyendle” ringlets, shaking up and down to the beat of drums.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Wed Feb 17, 1971