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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... calabash. In playing the instrument the musician holds the calabash, whose open end is facing away from the stick, under his left arm; in his right hand he holds a stalk of umqungu grass with which he strikes the hair or stretched piece ...
... calabash. In playing the instrument the musician holds the calabash, whose open end is facing away from the stick, under his left arm; in his right hand he holds a stalk of umqungu grass with which he strikes the hair or stretched piece ...
Page 833
... calabash, prepared for use as a musical instrument, connected by a bow to a single string, which is beaten and resounds in the calabash with a sound like gubu gubu, D X Xes (Kirby). String is of horsehair, X. 2. also calabash for ...
... calabash, prepared for use as a musical instrument, connected by a bow to a single string, which is beaten and resounds in the calabash with a sound like gubu gubu, D X Xes (Kirby). String is of horsehair, X. 2. also calabash for ...
Page 836
... calabash resonator, uhadi (Xhosa, Thembu, Bom vana, Mpondomise, Mpondo, Bhaca), igubu (Xhosa, Xesibe) or ugumpu (Mpondo, Bhaca) (Shaw & Van Warmelo 1974, pl. 26: 5; present paper, Pl. 120: 2, 4). It has a curved wooden stave (injikwe) ...
... calabash resonator, uhadi (Xhosa, Thembu, Bom vana, Mpondomise, Mpondo, Bhaca), igubu (Xhosa, Xesibe) or ugumpu (Mpondo, Bhaca) (Shaw & Van Warmelo 1974, pl. 26: 5; present paper, Pl. 120: 2, 4). It has a curved wooden stave (injikwe) ...
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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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