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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... snuff-spoon, snuff-box 'Stick ivory snuff-spoon in hair and reed snuff box in ear. Scarcely by others.” 1820–31 Steedman (1835) 1 p. 252 Cape Nguni: tobacco, snuff, snuff-box, snuff-spoon 'Tobacco is cultivated throughout the country ...
... snuff-spoon, snuff-box 'Stick ivory snuff-spoon in hair and reed snuff box in ear. Scarcely by others.” 1820–31 Steedman (1835) 1 p. 252 Cape Nguni: tobacco, snuff, snuff-box, snuff-spoon 'Tobacco is cultivated throughout the country ...
Page 719
p. 306 Thembu: snuff-spoon 'After some time, the women . . . begged a pinch, or rather some spoonfuls of snuff, for they are not satisfied with a pinch, but with a little wooden spoon fill their nostrils with it till their eyes water ...
p. 306 Thembu: snuff-spoon 'After some time, the women . . . begged a pinch, or rather some spoonfuls of snuff, for they are not satisfied with a pinch, but with a little wooden spoon fill their nostrils with it till their eyes water ...
Page 720
... snuff-box, for which purpose they are generally used.' c. 1831–2 Smith pp. 106–107 Mpondo: snuff-boxes, snuff-spoons p. 106 Mpondo: snuff-box, snuff-spoon 'They sometimes suspend snuff-boxes to the tresses of hair that hang on the sides ...
... snuff-box, for which purpose they are generally used.' c. 1831–2 Smith pp. 106–107 Mpondo: snuff-boxes, snuff-spoons p. 106 Mpondo: snuff-box, snuff-spoon 'They sometimes suspend snuff-boxes to the tresses of hair that hang on the sides ...
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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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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