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Page 112
... iron smelting ' By means of the singular bellows I have just described , the Kaffres can smelt out the iron from the ore , which is found in great abundance between Love- dale and the Buffalo river . 1824 Ross p . 212 Ngwane : tongs ...
... iron smelting ' By means of the singular bellows I have just described , the Kaffres can smelt out the iron from the ore , which is found in great abundance between Love- dale and the Buffalo river . 1824 Ross p . 212 Ngwane : tongs ...
Page 125
... iron tongs , and modern Bhaca informants knew them as made of wire . The hammer was a stone or , according to Alberti , a piece of iron ' in the shape of a truncated cone ' and with no handle . Paravicini di Capelli , however , states ...
... iron tongs , and modern Bhaca informants knew them as made of wire . The hammer was a stone or , according to Alberti , a piece of iron ' in the shape of a truncated cone ' and with no handle . Paravicini di Capelli , however , states ...
Page 407
... iron one ; now any pot for cooking , D Mp ( X - Lichtenstein 1811 1 : 655 ) . ( This is a misleading definition , as formerly there were only earthenware cooking pots , and no iron ones from which to distinguish them . ) 2. the ...
... iron one ; now any pot for cooking , D Mp ( X - Lichtenstein 1811 1 : 655 ) . ( This is a misleading definition , as formerly there were only earthenware cooking pots , and no iron ones from which to distinguish them . ) 2. the ...
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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