Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... brown to light - brown ochres with a strong silica content in the form of quartz . The paints contained up to six amino acids and with a dark - brown one ' it is fairly certain that it is a painting of ochre fixed with blood and ...
... brown to light - brown ochres with a strong silica content in the form of quartz . The paints contained up to six amino acids and with a dark - brown one ' it is fairly certain that it is a painting of ochre fixed with blood and ...
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... Brown camel - thorn root powder with chewed , hard fat , or Vaseline , or water for gemsbok face Brown camel - thorn bark powder for female infections Berry , ' sambiesiebos ' , in southern S.W.A. Elandsboontjie root for tanning and ...
... Brown camel - thorn root powder with chewed , hard fat , or Vaseline , or water for gemsbok face Brown camel - thorn bark powder for female infections Berry , ' sambiesiebos ' , in southern S.W.A. Elandsboontjie root for tanning and ...
Page 169
The brown bark of an unidentified tree also colours the skins red . Pounded acacia ' wood ' ( Berseba informant ) tans and colours skins red , acacia bark ( W. Smith 1972 pers . comm . ) tans and colours skins red or brown - the Berseba ...
The brown bark of an unidentified tree also colours the skins red . Pounded acacia ' wood ' ( Berseba informant ) tans and colours skins red , acacia bark ( W. Smith 1972 pers . comm . ) tans and colours skins red or brown - the Berseba ...
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Pigments and paints worldwide | 10 |
Theories and experiments regarding southern African rock paintings | 25 |
Pigments and paints of the historical Hottentots | 68 |
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animal fat Berseba blades Bleek blood BNK 1 layer BNK 1 sample body bone Botswana bovids brown buchu burial Bushmen camel-thorn Cape Town cent charcoal clay colour comm cosmetic deposits distal Dornan dung Engelbrecht 1936 excavated faces flakes frequencies G/wi gemsbok Gibeon grease groups H. J. Deacon haematite Hahn hair Hoernlé honey Hottentots indicate initiate Kalahari Kelders Khoisan Kora Kung layer 12 layer 9 medium mentioned mixed with fat Nama Namaqua Nelson Bay Cave Orange River ostrich ostrich egg-shell oxides Patella patterns Péringuey pieces powder quartz quartzite Raphicerus Raven-Hart red ochre references retouched artefact Riebeeck ritual Robberg rock paintings rubbed Rudner & Rudner Schapera scrapers segments shell silcrete skin smeared Smithfield soot Soromas South African Museum South West Africa species specularite suggested Table tortoise-shell urine utilization washed Wikar Wilton women wood yellow