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 769
... bone, indicating the state of the patient's health.' 1863–6 Fritsch, G. (1872) pp. 104–105, 108 Xhosa: divination, ubulunga pp. 104–105 Xhosa: divining bones . . . Prophezeiungen . . . und man bedient sich dabei einer Art Zauberwürfel ...
... bone, indicating the state of the patient's health.' 1863–6 Fritsch, G. (1872) pp. 104–105, 108 Xhosa: divination, ubulunga pp. 104–105 Xhosa: divining bones . . . Prophezeiungen . . . und man bedient sich dabei einer Art Zauberwürfel ...
Page 786
... bones “A native doctor or inyanga always carried in his outfit, besides herbs and charms, a bag of divining-bones or oodolosi. These consist of small bones, stones and shells, and are used to foretell the future or determine the ...
... bones “A native doctor or inyanga always carried in his outfit, besides herbs and charms, a bag of divining-bones or oodolosi. These consist of small bones, stones and shells, and are used to foretell the future or determine the ...
Page 802
... bones, skulls, skins and other media with which he works. He has a special hut in which he keeps them and which he uses for his divining . . . a diviner in the Komgha area . . . who works in this fashion . . . arranged a collection of ...
... bones, skulls, skins and other media with which he works. He has a special hut in which he keeps them and which he uses for his divining . . . a diviner in the Komgha area . . . who works in this fashion . . . arranged a collection of ...
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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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