Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 24South African Museum, 1929 - Natual history |
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Page 98
... shell beads , rope , string , and soapstone pipes , and the dressing of skins . As varying accounts , mostly based on conjecture and not actual observation , have been given regarding the manufacture of ostrich egg - shell beads , I ...
... shell beads , rope , string , and soapstone pipes , and the dressing of skins . As varying accounts , mostly based on conjecture and not actual observation , have been given regarding the manufacture of ostrich egg - shell beads , I ...
Page 212
... shell , etc. from the deposit had been thrown aside to level the floor . Mr. Drury sank a few test holes in the deposit , and found from these that in most of the cave there was only a few inches of deposit , overlying a deep layer of ...
... shell , etc. from the deposit had been thrown aside to level the floor . Mr. Drury sank a few test holes in the deposit , and found from these that in most of the cave there was only a few inches of deposit , overlying a deep layer of ...
Page 216
... shell beads , a few fragments of egg - shell , some chips of crystal , a single shell crescent , upper and lower jaws of one or two small buck . Fish . 16-24 inches . Five shell crescents , 3 fragments of ochre , 5 ostrich egg - shell ...
... shell beads , a few fragments of egg - shell , some chips of crystal , a single shell crescent , upper and lower jaws of one or two small buck . Fish . 16-24 inches . Five shell crescents , 3 fragments of ochre , 5 ostrich egg - shell ...
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Alexandersfontein Aurignacian band Bantu base beach beads Big Rock bones bored branded brass brown burin Bushman tribe Cape Cape Peninsula Cape Town carved cave centre colour copper dagga decorated deposit Diameter of mouth Diameter of stopper dolerite Drury edge end-scraper European excavation feet flakes front Goodwin gourd Greatest width Griquatown Height hole horizontal horn Hottentots implements inch incised Index knife layer leather Length of handle lower bowl midden midrib molar Mossel Bay neck Neill nozzle ostrich Ovambo Ovamboland Painted Shelter patination petroglyphs pipe Plate polished quagga raised beach round scraper shape shell shows side similar skulls Smithfield snuff snuff-boxes South African Museum specimens stem Stone Age strap Style Table Mountain sandstone teeth text-fig Title Total length Transkei upper bowl Vosburg Width across foot width of blade Width of handle width of sheath wire wood Wooden mouthpiece XXIV