Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1992 - Natural history |
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Page 157
... whole surface , or by the introduction of only a few coloured strands to make linear designs . In chequer work most of the examples so far recorded have a check effect over the whole surface and most of them come from KwaZulu ( 142a ) ...
... whole surface , or by the introduction of only a few coloured strands to make linear designs . In chequer work most of the examples so far recorded have a check effect over the whole surface and most of them come from KwaZulu ( 142a ) ...
Page 187
... whole , especially for one or more ele- ments of doors , or for filling in walls in the north and east , and also as the warps of fish traps . Their shiny yellow surface is very decorative . The following species have been identified so ...
... whole , especially for one or more ele- ments of doors , or for filling in walls in the north and east , and also as the warps of fish traps . Their shiny yellow surface is very decorative . The following species have been identified so ...
Page 194
... WHOLE PLANT Rather more rarely the whole plant is used , but only in the case of grass and reeds . The whole tuft of grass , stripped of its roots , may be used as a warp element in woven work . This occurs more especially in twined ...
... WHOLE PLANT Rather more rarely the whole plant is used , but only in the case of grass and reeds . The whole tuft of grass , stripped of its roots , may be used as a warp element in woven work . This occurs more especially in twined ...
Contents
PART | 54 |
Conclusion | 208 |
Summary and index of basketwork techniques | 214 |
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Acacia Ambo bands bark basketwork beads beer-strainers boiled with material Botswana chequer weave close coil foundation coiled baskets coiled sewn comm cord crossing current name cylindrical Cyperus decorative diagonal twill different colour Duiwelskloof extended plait fabric finished flat food-mats foundation strands grain-bins grass Group Place Author half-hitched hitched hoops Huruthse knotted Kwanyama last warp lattice twine lattice wrapped Lesotho Lobedu loop Mahlabatini mats Mpondo multiple foundation multiple warp Ndau Ndebele Nguni ornamental Oshikango Ovambo oversewing oversewing edge palm-leaf patterns plain twine plaited recorded reinforced Rodin round row of twining row of weft selvedge sewing strand shape simple oversewing sleeping-mats sometimes Sotho South Sotho southern Africa Species Use Group split split-warp spoon-bags straight sewn strips technique thin threaded Transkei Tsonga Tswana twilled twine twined weave twisted Venda warp and weft warp edge warps weft wefts or sewing wickerwork winnowing baskets woven Zimbabwe Zulu Zulu Natal