Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 24, Part 3The Museum, 1935 - Natural history |
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Page 141
... snuff ( 6 ) . Tobacco is believed to have been introduced by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century ( 26 ) ; and it is possible that snuff - taking was introduced at the same time , though the fact that powdered dagga leaves are ...
... snuff ( 6 ) . Tobacco is believed to have been introduced by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century ( 26 ) ; and it is possible that snuff - taking was introduced at the same time , though the fact that powdered dagga leaves are ...
Page 142
... snuff - box ( 25 , p . 8 ) , and those who can afford it , a small snuff - spoon carved out of ivory . They take snuff squatting on the ground ; in a circle if there are several of them . Having first cleansed the nostrils with an iron ...
... snuff - box ( 25 , p . 8 ) , and those who can afford it , a small snuff - spoon carved out of ivory . They take snuff squatting on the ground ; in a circle if there are several of them . Having first cleansed the nostrils with an iron ...
Page 144
... snuff is taken at peace conferences as a sign of goodwill . In the final part of the marriage ceremony of one of the clans the bride kneels to offer the bridegroom snuff , but when he has approached and taken a little between his ...
... snuff is taken at peace conferences as a sign of goodwill . In the final part of the marriage ceremony of one of the clans the bride kneels to offer the bridegroom snuff , but when he has approached and taken a little between his ...
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13 inch attached Basal diameters Basuto Basutoland Bay Culture beach deposit Bechuana blade Blaize Cave bottle gourd bottom Cape St Cape Town china blue colour curve dark decorated Diameter of lower Diameter of mouth Diameter of neck Diameter of upper disc core edge Enon excavation flake scars George Leith Goodwin gourd shell Greatest width Height hole horn Howieson's Poort illustrated on Plate inch by inch inches upper bowl Journ layer leather Leith Length of nozzle Levallois core lime Little Brak loop lower bowl midden Middle Stone Age Minor Emergence Mossel Bay Industry Mossel Bay type necklet Neill OVAMBO overlying peneplain PĂ©ringuey plain Plate XXVII prong quartzite raised beach rows scraper shows snuff snuff-box South African Museum specimens strap striking platform surface Table Mountain sandstone talus trench tribes types of implement undisturbed white beads white-eyed red wooden base Zulu