Brother-In-Law

This is my "swaer" (brother-in-law) S., making a flying visit to the city. One sees here his perplexity at having been overtaken by modern technology -- the upside-down tomato sauce / ketchup bottle. OBSERVATION: In the English scheme of things, he would not be a brother-in-law -- he is, however, in the Xhosa scheme of things, and not in name only. He was my chief adviser prior to my bride-price negotiations -- and played a few tricks on me, too. This had a lot of people amused -- and added much fun to the proceedings. (If you should ever need to negotiate the bride-price, don't ask S., ask me)! I chose him, too, as my traditional representative for the negotiations, but the elders judged that he did not qualify, being one of the younger generation (a suitor is ordinarily not allowed to speak directly to the elders).