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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... grass ornaments 'Like other Amapondas, they wear bands of platted grass about their loins, wrists, and arms, and take snuff, but do not smoke." 1836–44 Döhne (1844) pp. 38, 42 Xhosa: brass and grass ornaments p. 38 Xhosa: girdle 'Sie ...
... grass ornaments 'Like other Amapondas, they wear bands of platted grass about their loins, wrists, and arms, and take snuff, but do not smoke." 1836–44 Döhne (1844) pp. 38, 42 Xhosa: brass and grass ornaments p. 38 Xhosa: girdle 'Sie ...
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... grass, thereby squeezing out the moisture and spiralling the fibre, as in rope, to achieve strength. Hence also several strands in the same way) 1. nD. 2. ring of twisted grass whether on leg, arm, waist or neck, general. 3. armlet or ...
... grass, thereby squeezing out the moisture and spiralling the fibre, as in rope, to achieve strength. Hence also several strands in the same way) 1. nD. 2. ring of twisted grass whether on leg, arm, waist or neck, general. 3. armlet or ...
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... grass, used to plait armlet called injica, T 860 injica 1. stalk of grass; armlet plaited from it, DX. 2. armlet plaited from four stalks of imbica grass, worn by girls and boys, T. 3. species of grass, c. 60 cm tall, found in lands ...
... grass, used to plait armlet called injica, T 860 injica 1. stalk of grass; armlet plaited from it, DX. 2. armlet plaited from four stalks of imbica grass, worn by girls and boys, T. 3. species of grass, c. 60 cm tall, found in lands ...
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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