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 504
... young men also often wear an isi(t)shuba, which is a robe of brightly coloured cotton material reaching from waist to ankle. . . . Shirts are sometimes worn, and blankets are invariably draped about the upper part of the body ...
... young men also often wear an isi(t)shuba, which is a robe of brightly coloured cotton material reaching from waist to ankle. . . . Shirts are sometimes worn, and blankets are invariably draped about the upper part of the body ...
Page 505
... young girls, but to a much lesser extent youths and young men, have adhered to non-western dress. All Red women habitually wear at least the traditional, red-ochred skirts; many of them wear the items to be described below. Girls of all ...
... young girls, but to a much lesser extent youths and young men, have adhered to non-western dress. All Red women habitually wear at least the traditional, red-ochred skirts; many of them wear the items to be described below. Girls of all ...
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... young and old. To them it is more of a status symbol than an indication of age. The umlolombela pipe of the diviners differs from that used by ordinary people by being richly decorated with white strings of beads round the stem. Other ...
... young and old. To them it is more of a status symbol than an indication of age. The umlolombela pipe of the diviners differs from that used by ordinary people by being richly decorated with white strings of beads round the stem. Other ...
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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