YOUNG ZULU SCULPTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

YOUNG ZULU SCULPTOR.

MODELS MADE WITH FINGERS. Princess Alice has acquired four examples of the work of Hezekeli Nutli, a 17-year-old Zulu, whose sculpl-ured models of animal life and Zulu lore, have won unstinted praise from experts who have seen them. The Native Economic Commission in South Africa, is making itself responsible for the boy's future education. He makes his models entirely with his own fiupers, using no tools to mould the clay. The boy was discovered i>y Mr. Stanley Williams, who found him one day making a model of a lion. Mr. Williams recognised the boy's talent at once, and arranged for his introduction to the Department of Native Affairs. Nutli lias wonderful powers of observation and is able to transfer to clay not only what ho has seen but also flights of his own vivid fancy. The Natal Attorney-General, Mr. Lennox Ward, who has seen the boy's models, describes them as " simply wonderful," and his work was awarded the only prize given to a native at the local agricultural show where it was exhibited