BR20000 Osprey Art Series - Zulu iNdluyengwe Regiment - Standing Firing #1, 1 Piece Set (Consign)(ST)

This figure has picked up a couple belts and ammo pouches as well as a discarded Martini-Henry from the Isandlwana battlefield.

iNdluyengwe Regiment

Formed in 1866. ‘The leopard’s lair’. Headquarters at Ondini. A bachelor regiment which earned a rather ignominious reputation at the ravine behind Isandlwana where they were reduced to cutting down fugitives from the main action, and later at Rorke’s Drift where many of them installed themselves on the Oskarberg Terraces and sniped at the post until after dark.

The figure shown here, however, proudly wears full dress uniform, leopard-skin headband, monkey-skin amabheqe, sakabula feathers over the ears, split black ostrich feathers and a single white ostrich feather in front. In battle the ostrich feathers were not worn. The kilt is of monkey tails.

The amatshoba on the legs are seen here at their most showy and luxuriously full. He displays captured ammunition pouches and Martini-Henry rifle from Isandlwana. Note that the shield is being held reversed; the pattern recorded is black with a large white spot below the centre.