Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58, Issue 4West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1899 - Natural history |
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Page 594
... According to Alberti, Xhosa initiates wore white clay until healed, while according to Kropf they were smeared with ordinary mud until their wounds were healed, and thereafter with white clay. All other sources speak of white clay ...
... According to Alberti, Xhosa initiates wore white clay until healed, while according to Kropf they were smeared with ordinary mud until their wounds were healed, and thereafter with white clay. All other sources speak of white clay ...
Page 660
... according to Streatfeild (1878) anyone who could afford to buy one might wear it. According to Van der Kemp the ivory arm-bands were peculiar to the subjects of Ngqika (Gaika), and certainly most of the notices in the literature seem to ...
... according to Streatfeild (1878) anyone who could afford to buy one might wear it. According to Van der Kemp the ivory arm-bands were peculiar to the subjects of Ngqika (Gaika), and certainly most of the notices in the literature seem to ...
Page 838
... According to Kirby it was not very popular in the Cape. He saw one amongst the Xhosa of Dordrecht and there is an example from Pondoland in the Albany Museum (Pl. 120:3). Informants in 1948 and 1955 did not appear to know it, and none ...
... According to Kirby it was not very popular in the Cape. He saw one amongst the Xhosa of Dordrecht and there is an example from Pondoland in the Albany Museum (Pl. 120:3). Informants in 1948 and 1955 did not appear to know it, and none ...
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Personal and general | 449 |
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Ciskei coasts have changed some of the localities hitherto accepted in historical | 540 |
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abakhwetha According animal anklet apron arm-bands assegai bangles beadwork Bhaca blanket body Bomvana bones boys brass rings breast-cloth burial buttons Caffres calabash Cape Nguni cattle ceremony charms chief cicatrization circumcision Ciskei cloak cloth colour copper cosmetics costume crane feathers custom dancing decorated diviners dolls finger Fingo gall-bladders garment Gcaleka girdle girls goat goatskin grass grease hair hair-style Hammond-Tooke hanging head head-band head-cloth head-dress hemp Hlubi horn initiation intonjane ivory Kaffir kaross kraal legend leopard loin-cloth Lusikisiki Makalima medicine Mpondo Mpondomise musical bow necklace necklet ornaments paint penis-sheath piece pipe plaited plant Pondoland red clay red ochre round the neck skin skirt smeared smoking snuff snuff-box snuff-spoon sometimes Sotho stick stone string tail Thembu thong tobacco Transkei tribes Tshezi ubulunga Umtata waist water-pipe wear white beads white clay Willowvale woman women wore worn round wrist Xesibe Xhosa young