The dress and paraphernalia of the diviner helps enable the process of mediumship and serves to increase the diviner's isithunzi through the brooding presence of the ancestral-spirits. She only wears gall-bladders when she goes to meetings with other izangoma . Tyrrell has given us a record of such regional style differences in diviners' dress, as well as the styles of non Zulu diviners, such as those from the Ndebele, Xhosa and Sotho groups. 14Secondly, a certain respect is required from those who come into contact with diviners as they are the servants of the ancestral-spirits. These factors are to be found reflected in the attitudes of artists who have depicted diviners.
Diviners serve the people for good.
Cele is a member of the Nazereth Baptist Church of Isaiah Shembe and his subject matter concentrates on this church's leaders and activities. Web exhibition Art and Oracle April 2000 2. Page 30 3. Page 134. 7. 1972 Pages 254. 8.