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 564
... crane feathers p. 100 Mpondo: crane feathers, axe Faku's praises: “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So as a rock remains a rock An axe shall continue an axe.” p. 125 Thembu: army 'The chiefs go behind with the men with ...
... crane feathers p. 100 Mpondo: crane feathers, axe Faku's praises: “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So as a rock remains a rock An axe shall continue an axe.” p. 125 Thembu: army 'The chiefs go behind with the men with ...
Page 590
other feathers, or tails, especially of hartebeest or jackal, in a bunch on their heads. Bell's sketch shows all the men wearing crane feathers. Distinguished Thembu warriors wore the crane feathers as well, and according to Smith they ...
other feathers, or tails, especially of hartebeest or jackal, in a bunch on their heads. Bell's sketch shows all the men wearing crane feathers. Distinguished Thembu warriors wore the crane feathers as well, and according to Smith they ...
Page 591
... crane feathers on your head'. This may have meant individual feathers, not the whole wing. Gardiner, who visited the Mpondo in 1834, refers to the principal warriors 'wearing plumes'. Modern Mpondo informants knew nothing of it. It is ...
... crane feathers on your head'. This may have meant individual feathers, not the whole wing. Gardiner, who visited the Mpondo in 1834, refers to the principal warriors 'wearing plumes'. Modern Mpondo informants knew nothing of it. It is ...
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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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