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 473
... hair-styles Figures of men's and women's hair-styles. 1834–5 Godlonton (1835–6) p. 133 Xhosa: hair-style “By means of an iron pin, the short woolly hair which distinguishes the negro races, is tortured into minute curls, each about the ...
... hair-styles Figures of men's and women's hair-styles. 1834–5 Godlonton (1835–6) p. 133 Xhosa: hair-style “By means of an iron pin, the short woolly hair which distinguishes the negro races, is tortured into minute curls, each about the ...
Page 530
... hair was fancily dressed. Xhosa men a hundred years later were described as wearing no caps, whatever the weather or season. It seems possible, however, that what was referred to as a 'greasy cap like the Hottentots of Natal', which ...
... hair was fancily dressed. Xhosa men a hundred years later were described as wearing no caps, whatever the weather or season. It seems possible, however, that what was referred to as a 'greasy cap like the Hottentots of Natal', which ...
Page 548
... hair was accordingly fancily dressed (Pl. 73: 2). Mpondo women's hair-style when first described appears to have been similar to what the Bhaca style was up to about 1958, that is, a mop of thin twists, hanging down almost to the ...
... hair was accordingly fancily dressed (Pl. 73: 2). Mpondo women's hair-style when first described appears to have been similar to what the Bhaca style was up to about 1958, that is, a mop of thin twists, hanging down almost to the ...
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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