Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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Page 128
... rubbed or rather washed with the juice squeezed from the Hottentot fig ' . When dry ' it is immediately and repeatedly rubbed with sheep's fat or with fat and butter , and bestrewn with buchu ; this clings to the body like a bark and in ...
... rubbed or rather washed with the juice squeezed from the Hottentot fig ' . When dry ' it is immediately and repeatedly rubbed with sheep's fat or with fat and butter , and bestrewn with buchu ; this clings to the body like a bark and in ...
Page 140
... rubbed clean with a mixture of cattle - dung and fresh cream ( pp . 160-161 ) . Part of the Kora ritual of female initiation was to rub the whole body with red ochre and cream ( p . 163 ) . Another informant said that the girl was rubbed ...
... rubbed clean with a mixture of cattle - dung and fresh cream ( pp . 160-161 ) . Part of the Kora ritual of female initiation was to rub the whole body with red ochre and cream ( p . 163 ) . Another informant said that the girl was rubbed ...
Page 199
... rubbed with charcoal for strength . Cuts made during female initiation were rubbed with charcoal by Bushmen in central Angola and by the ! xóo in Botswana . The G / wi used ash and roots in cuts made in the skins of a young couple ...
... rubbed with charcoal for strength . Cuts made during female initiation were rubbed with charcoal by Bushmen in central Angola and by the ! xóo in Botswana . The G / wi used ash and roots in cuts made in the skins of a young couple ...
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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