Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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Page 137
... ceremony , buchu made of sweet - smelling bark , roots , or leaves , ground to powder , was sprinkled over the girl and her clothes ; ! naop , a face paint made by grinding soft red stone to powder and mixing it with fat , was used to ...
... ceremony , buchu made of sweet - smelling bark , roots , or leaves , ground to powder , was sprinkled over the girl and her clothes ; ! naop , a face paint made by grinding soft red stone to powder and mixing it with fat , was used to ...
Page 225
In the Ceremony of the First Menstruation ( often years after the wedding ceremony ) , the design on the face is the same and ' she is washed and anointed with both eland and other fat and the oil of the tsi ( Bauhinia esculenta Burch ...
In the Ceremony of the First Menstruation ( often years after the wedding ceremony ) , the design on the face is the same and ' she is washed and anointed with both eland and other fat and the oil of the tsi ( Bauhinia esculenta Burch ...
Page 228
... ceremony , the young girl - wife is secluded in a small hut for the first menstrual period . On the fifth day she and her husband are washed with the moist shavings of a bisa root ( Raphionacme burkei ) —it is always done , it cleans ...
... ceremony , the young girl - wife is secluded in a small hut for the first menstrual period . On the fifth day she and her husband are washed with the moist shavings of a bisa root ( Raphionacme burkei ) —it is always done , it cleans ...
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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