Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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Page 251
... Bomvana : calabash , milk utensils Bomvana : milk calabash ' On the fifth day she [ the mother ] is given a separate calabash of sour milk which she keeps in her own hut . . . . The woman's calabash is called imbikata . When the baby ...
... Bomvana : calabash , milk utensils Bomvana : milk calabash ' On the fifth day she [ the mother ] is given a separate calabash of sour milk which she keeps in her own hut . . . . The woman's calabash is called imbikata . When the baby ...
Page 313
... Bomvana : ritual use Bomvana : circumcision ' He uses a short , flat assegai called irwana . Usually a new assegai is used for each school . It is left in the hut ( itonto ) when the latter is burnt at the con- cluding ceremonies . What ...
... Bomvana : ritual use Bomvana : circumcision ' He uses a short , flat assegai called irwana . Usually a new assegai is used for each school . It is left in the hut ( itonto ) when the latter is burnt at the con- cluding ceremonies . What ...
Page 410
... Bomvana ( Pl . 56 : 2 , 5 ) . The type of basket that was used for serving soup , porridge , and other food , is not described , but is likely to have been the same coiled type as the above , or may have been closely woven ( Pl . 59 : 3 ) ...
... Bomvana ( Pl . 56 : 2 , 5 ) . The type of basket that was used for serving soup , porridge , and other food , is not described , but is likely to have been the same coiled type as the above , or may have been closely woven ( Pl . 59 : 3 ) ...
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According Alberti animals assegai Baines baskets beer Bhaca bird-lime birds Bizana blade Bo Mp Bomvana bows and arrows boys bundle Bushmen Caffre calabash Cape Nguni Cape tribes carried cattle chief club confirmed Curtisia diameter Döhne eene eenen Elliotdale 1948 Fingo fire-sticks fish Fritsch grain grass grinding-stones Griqualand East ground Hammond-Tooke hand handle hide Hlubi Hottentots Hunter hunting intonga iron isithebe Kaffir kill Kiri knife knobbed sticks knobkerries kraal Lichtenstein 1811 Lusikisiki maize meat milk milk-basket milk-sack mortar and pestle mortars Mp Xes Mpondo Mpondomise Mt Ayliff noose okanye pestle PLATE plough Pondoland pots pron quiver Schild shaft Shaw shield Xhosa skin snare sneezewood Soga Sotho spade spear spears Xhosa spoon stabbing Stavenisse stone Thembu thong threshing throwing Transkei trap umnqayi Umtata utensils weapons Willowvale women wood wooden wordt X-McLaren Xes Bh Xesibe zeer zich zijn Zoll