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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... buttons, beads, and beadwork head-bands. Paravicini di Capelli mentions head-bands of ostrich-eggshell beads, but ... Buttons, which in the early days were brass and latterly white porcelain or pearl, have been predominantly used for ...
... buttons, beads, and beadwork head-bands. Paravicini di Capelli mentions head-bands of ostrich-eggshell beads, but ... Buttons, which in the early days were brass and latterly white porcelain or pearl, have been predominantly used for ...
Page 860
... buttons, or about six shillings and four pence. . . . The two buttons were given by two Kafirs who, having nothing else to give, each one cut a button off from his kaross.” 1827 Hallbeck & Fritsch (1826) pp. 304 Thembu, Xhosa: buttons ...
... buttons, or about six shillings and four pence. . . . The two buttons were given by two Kafirs who, having nothing else to give, each one cut a button off from his kaross.” 1827 Hallbeck & Fritsch (1826) pp. 304 Thembu, Xhosa: buttons ...
Page 863
... buttons, but they are rapidly acquiring a taste for more useful articles, namely, implements of husbandry, tin pots ... buttons, brass wire, and common handkerchiefs: . . . .” c. 1831–2 Smith pp. 11–12 Xhosa: articles of trade ...
... buttons, but they are rapidly acquiring a taste for more useful articles, namely, implements of husbandry, tin pots ... buttons, brass wire, and common handkerchiefs: . . . .” c. 1831–2 Smith pp. 11–12 Xhosa: articles of trade ...
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Personal and general | 449 |
y K | 479 |
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