Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... butter on a corpse ( Förg 1968 ) , but in this instance pigments were not mentioned . The Ovambo use butter and animal fats , sometimes mixed with pigments , for cosmetic and ritual purposes ; the earth pigments are red ochre , ' yellow ...
... butter on a corpse ( Förg 1968 ) , but in this instance pigments were not mentioned . The Ovambo use butter and animal fats , sometimes mixed with pigments , for cosmetic and ritual purposes ; the earth pigments are red ochre , ' yellow ...
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... Butter There were seventeen references ( about 7 % ) to butter ; five of these mentioned only that the Hottentots made it ( the ' Namaqua ' and Cape people in the seventeenth century , and the Nama ( Schultze 1907 ) ) , usually in a ...
... Butter There were seventeen references ( about 7 % ) to butter ; five of these mentioned only that the Hottentots made it ( the ' Namaqua ' and Cape people in the seventeenth century , and the Nama ( Schultze 1907 ) ) , usually in a ...
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Butter was used as a food by the Cape herders , the Nama , and the Kora who drank it . De Grevenbroek , Kolb , and Thunberg maintained that the Hottentots did not eat butter but used it only for smearing . Butter was used in rituals ...
Butter was used as a food by the Cape herders , the Nama , and the Kora who drank it . De Grevenbroek , Kolb , and Thunberg maintained that the Hottentots did not eat butter but used it only for smearing . Butter was used in rituals ...
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