Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... wrote of horn containers for paint , probably having obtained this information from Stow ( 1905 ) , which Schapera and Friend- ly must have done . Palettes , grinding - stones Dunn found a ' palette ' in a deposit as well as grinding ...
... wrote of horn containers for paint , probably having obtained this information from Stow ( 1905 ) , which Schapera and Friend- ly must have done . Palettes , grinding - stones Dunn found a ' palette ' in a deposit as well as grinding ...
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... wrote that the people at Saldanha , who had sheep and cattle , anointed ' their bodyes with a filthy substance which I suppose to be the Juice of Hearbes which on the bodyes sheweth like Cowe dung and the wooll of there heades is so ...
... wrote that the people at Saldanha , who had sheep and cattle , anointed ' their bodyes with a filthy substance which I suppose to be the Juice of Hearbes which on the bodyes sheweth like Cowe dung and the wooll of there heades is so ...
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Westphal wrote in 1906 that a mixture of yellow fungus powder and fat was used on bodies against heat and cold . In South West Africa , Bushwomen used a yellow - brown aromatic powder ( Fischer 1913 ) that might have been from a fungus ...
Westphal wrote in 1906 that a mixture of yellow fungus powder and fat was used on bodies against heat and cold . In South West Africa , Bushwomen used a yellow - brown aromatic powder ( Fischer 1913 ) that might have been from a fungus ...
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