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 583
... white beads. I did not see the things that characterised the old-time pictures of “witch-doctors” that is skirts of monkey-tails, inflated ox-bladders in the hair, necklaces of horns, claws and so on. White is the diviners' colour. They ...
... white beads. I did not see the things that characterised the old-time pictures of “witch-doctors” that is skirts of monkey-tails, inflated ox-bladders in the hair, necklaces of horns, claws and so on. White is the diviners' colour. They ...
Page 584
... white is the colour chosen by their ancestors for them because it is associated with light and that diviners need ... beads 'The only people who do not wear beads for ornamentation are the diviners (amaggira), who wear only white beads ...
... white is the colour chosen by their ancestors for them because it is associated with light and that diviners need ... beads 'The only people who do not wear beads for ornamentation are the diviners (amaggira), who wear only white beads ...
Page 592
... white, but sometimes a little blue or red is added. Tails, gall-bladder and fur cap are worn by all practitioners, and below the cap there is usually a long fringe of white beads, hanging to the eyes or below, and other white beadwork ...
... white, but sometimes a little blue or red is added. Tails, gall-bladder and fur cap are worn by all practitioners, and below the cap there is usually a long fringe of white beads, hanging to the eyes or below, and other white beadwork ...
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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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