Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 49The Museum, 1968 - Natural history |
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... clay . These pieces are placed on their edges and joined together to form a circle . Where one piece is used the short sides of the rectangle are joined together . The walls so formed are smoothed upwards and shaped as desired , to form ...
... clay . These pieces are placed on their edges and joined together to form a circle . Where one piece is used the short sides of the rectangle are joined together . The walls so formed are smoothed upwards and shaped as desired , to form ...
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... clay is dug from the river bed near the water's edge with a pointed wooden stick or a metal rod . Each potter has her own clay hole ( umngxuma ) . Black clay is considered more suitable than red or yellow . The potter carries small ...
... clay is dug from the river bed near the water's edge with a pointed wooden stick or a metal rod . Each potter has her own clay hole ( umngxuma ) . Black clay is considered more suitable than red or yellow . The potter carries small ...
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South African Museum. chose the grey clay , as the red and black are not suitable . She dug it with a small hoe . Ground potsherds were mixed with the clay to consolidate it . The clay was ground to a fine powder , then gradually damped ...
South African Museum. chose the grey clay , as the red and black are not suitable . She dug it with a small hoe . Ground potsherds were mixed with the clay to consolidate it . The clay was ground to a fine powder , then gradually damped ...
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African Museum Expedition band Bantu beer ditto Cape carinated contracted neck cut rim Decorated with graphic district enamel paint everted neck formed firing flattened base formed with poorly-defined formed with well-defined further information graphic design graphite grooved lines Height horizontally pierced Hottentot I-FIELD incurved bowl inside Karanga Kwanyama Lemba Lobedu lump middens mouth museum records Name Ndau Nguni open-mouthed bowls outer surface overturned piece Plate point of inflection poorly-defined point pot of Type pot with short pot with upright pottery Pottery forms quartz sand admixture red burnish red ochre Rhodesia rim and flattened rim and rounded rounded base rounded rim Rozwi Rudner Schofield SECTION I-FIELD SECTION II-LITERATURE Shape smoothed Sotho South African Museum South Sotho Spherical pot stamped impressions Strandloper sub-carinated Swazi technique thickened rim Transvaal tribes trimming groove Tsonga Tswana Undecorated upright neck formed Venda vessel Warmelo well-defined point Zezuru