Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1972 - Natural history |
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Page 343
... animal food except it be obtained in the chase . They have two methods of [ procuring ] wild animals , the hassegay or kerrie and snares . The former is employed generally when they go in a body and surround game the latter when the ...
... animal food except it be obtained in the chase . They have two methods of [ procuring ] wild animals , the hassegay or kerrie and snares . The former is employed generally when they go in a body and surround game the latter when the ...
Page 350
... animals , at other times an animal was taken by surprise and beaten to death with one decisive blow by a man . Hunting with small short sticks ( izagweba ) is a new invention . The same applies to knobkerries ( ibhunguza ) arrows ...
... animals , at other times an animal was taken by surprise and beaten to death with one decisive blow by a man . Hunting with small short sticks ( izagweba ) is a new invention . The same applies to knobkerries ( ibhunguza ) arrows ...
Page 356
... animals would get away , but quite a large number would be killed . It is reported that after such a round - up the grass was burnt in that area , so as to make it easier to find at least the iron heads of the spears that had not been ...
... animals would get away , but quite a large number would be killed . It is reported that after such a round - up the grass was burnt in that area , so as to make it easier to find at least the iron heads of the spears that had not been ...
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According Alberti animals assegai Bantu baskets basketwork beads beadwork beer Bhaca Bizana blade Bomvana Caffre calabash Cape Nguni Cape Town Cape tribes cattle cattle-kraal chief Ciskei clay club coiled colour confirmed corn diameter Döhne door eene eenen Elliotdale 1948 European fence Fingo fire fire-sticks fish Fritsch grain grass grinding-stones Hammond-Tooke hide Hlubi homestead horn Hottentots Hunter hunting iron isando Kaffir knob knobkerries kraal London Lusikisiki Lusikisiki 1948 maize Makalima milk milk-sack mortars Mp Xes Mpondo Mpondomise Mt Ayliff Museum natives ochre okanye PLATE poles Pondoland pots pottery roof rope round sedge sewn shape Shaw shield skin Smith sneezewood Soga Sotho South Africa spade spear spoon Stavenisse stick stone thatch Thembu thong Transkei trap Umtata utensils wall weapons Willowvale Willowvale 1948 women wood wooden wordt Xes Bh Xesibe Xhosa Zoll