Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... shell with fat for baby salve Washed hair with raw penguin egg Powdered ostrich egg - shell with fat for ointment Powdered ostrich egg - shell with water for poultice Burnt , powdered ostrich egg - shell and fat for ' snuffles ' Burnt ...
... shell with fat for baby salve Washed hair with raw penguin egg Powdered ostrich egg - shell with fat for ointment Powdered ostrich egg - shell with water for poultice Burnt , powdered ostrich egg - shell and fat for ' snuffles ' Burnt ...
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... shell Red powdered bark , fatty seeds , initiate Roots , initiate On grave to placate spirit Kept in tortoise - shell ' Snuff ' burnt buchu For burns and sores Burnt on grave Various herbs used Over grave Relatives of deceased , as a ...
... shell Red powdered bark , fatty seeds , initiate Roots , initiate On grave to placate spirit Kept in tortoise - shell ' Snuff ' burnt buchu For burns and sores Burnt on grave Various herbs used Over grave Relatives of deceased , as a ...
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... shell wall , almost invariably from the inside of the shell and regardless of whether it was a gastropod or bivalve . This may well account for the high number of broken Donax serra valves , since the holes punched in these shells are ...
... shell wall , almost invariably from the inside of the shell and regardless of whether it was a gastropod or bivalve . This may well account for the high number of broken Donax serra valves , since the holes punched in these shells are ...
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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