Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1972 - Natural history |
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... stick , with or without a knob .... Beautiful walking - sticks , um - simelelo , were made out of Kaffir ironwood , um - simbiti , of which the heart - wood is dark red , turning to a glossy black . These were usually decorated with ...
... stick , with or without a knob .... Beautiful walking - sticks , um - simelelo , were made out of Kaffir ironwood , um - simbiti , of which the heart - wood is dark red , turning to a glossy black . These were usually decorated with ...
Page 294
... sticks , clubs ' As weapons of offence the boys carry several sticks ; these are in - duku- knobbed stick , an um - nqayi — a long pointed stick without a knob ( Eleo- dendron velutinum ) , for use in single combat . This stick is ...
... sticks , clubs ' As weapons of offence the boys carry several sticks ; these are in - duku- knobbed stick , an um - nqayi — a long pointed stick without a knob ( Eleo- dendron velutinum ) , for use in single combat . This stick is ...
Page 295
... stick , which was a little stick of good luck and gain , which a man carried when he went to and fro amongst the people . And then , at marriage festivities all the men carried iminqayi . When a man took his daughter away to be married ...
... stick , which was a little stick of good luck and gain , which a man carried when he went to and fro amongst the people . And then , at marriage festivities all the men carried iminqayi . When a man took his daughter away to be married ...
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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