Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... mainly a male custom . Plant pigments were obtained from wood , roots , lichens , and fungi , and were mainly red or yellow , but also purple ; they were used as coloured , scented powders ( buchu ) on greased bodies and occasionally on ...
... mainly a male custom . Plant pigments were obtained from wood , roots , lichens , and fungi , and were mainly red or yellow , but also purple ; they were used as coloured , scented powders ( buchu ) on greased bodies and occasionally on ...
Page 211
... mainly used by the Hottentots and some Tswana peoples . Fat was sometimes , but not often , used with or mixed with ground haematite to make a paint . Rarely was fat heated . No other binders for haematite were recorded . Charcoal ...
... mainly used by the Hottentots and some Tswana peoples . Fat was sometimes , but not often , used with or mixed with ground haematite to make a paint . Rarely was fat heated . No other binders for haematite were recorded . Charcoal ...
Page 265
... mainly red ochre ; in the northern and north - western Cape areas , specularite or related ores were also used . Other traditional pigments were charcoal and soot ( most frequently recorded at the Cape in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
... mainly red ochre ; in the northern and north - western Cape areas , specularite or related ores were also used . Other traditional pigments were charcoal and soot ( most frequently recorded at the Cape in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
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