Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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Page 83
... rituals , mainly as a ritual cleanser : Kolb ( 1731 ) recorded the ritual cleansing of a couple after childbirth , Mentzel ( 1787 ) noted this of the woman only . The Nama used this dung ( followed by ochre and fat ) for girl initiates ...
... rituals , mainly as a ritual cleanser : Kolb ( 1731 ) recorded the ritual cleansing of a couple after childbirth , Mentzel ( 1787 ) noted this of the woman only . The Nama used this dung ( followed by ochre and fat ) for girl initiates ...
Page 173
... ritual practices have lost their meaning , they did not even give rituals as reasons : they said that the practices are traditional , and that the use of cosmetic paints is for the sake of appearance , for protecting the skin ...
... ritual practices have lost their meaning , they did not even give rituals as reasons : they said that the practices are traditional , and that the use of cosmetic paints is for the sake of appearance , for protecting the skin ...
Page 211
... ritual purposes . Medicinal use was mainly for rubbing into medicinal cicatrization cuts . Fat was occasionally mixed with or used with charcoal to make a cosmetic paint . Plant pigments were , and still are , obtained mainly from woods ...
... ritual purposes . Medicinal use was mainly for rubbing into medicinal cicatrization cuts . Fat was occasionally mixed with or used with charcoal to make a cosmetic paint . Plant pigments were , and still are , obtained mainly from woods ...
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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