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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... paint. It is made by skimming the cream off the milk, and shaking it in a calabash.' p. 90 Xhosa: prescribed cosmetics '. . . there are occasions when the use of cosmetics is compulsory, sanctioned by tradition. . . . The cosmetic which ...
... paint. It is made by skimming the cream off the milk, and shaking it in a calabash.' p. 90 Xhosa: prescribed cosmetics '. . . there are occasions when the use of cosmetics is compulsory, sanctioned by tradition. . . . The cosmetic which ...
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... paint the boys with blue (washing blue is used), red ochre and a black paint made usually of charred Mimosa wood. This is called Umsizi. Each boy is painted slightly differently. . . . The best dancer in each itonto is known as ingwe ...
... paint the boys with blue (washing blue is used), red ochre and a black paint made usually of charred Mimosa wood. This is called Umsizi. Each boy is painted slightly differently. . . . The best dancer in each itonto is known as ingwe ...
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... Painted Painted decoration occurs on the human body or on the walls of huts. The paints used for both are red and yellow ochre, white clay, black soot or paint made of charred mimosa wood (Bomvana), and nowadays for hut walls washing ...
... Painted Painted decoration occurs on the human body or on the walls of huts. The paints used for both are red and yellow ochre, white clay, black soot or paint made of charred mimosa wood (Bomvana), and nowadays for hut walls washing ...
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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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