Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... blade Xhosa : description of spear called izaka 1835 Alexander ( 1837 ) 1 pp . 388 , 389 , 395 p . 388 Mpondo : description Xhosa : property of chief Cape Nguni : description Xhosa : description of four sorts ' The natural arms of the ...
... blade Xhosa : description of spear called izaka 1835 Alexander ( 1837 ) 1 pp . 388 , 389 , 395 p . 388 Mpondo : description Xhosa : property of chief Cape Nguni : description Xhosa : description of four sorts ' The natural arms of the ...
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... blade attached to a short handle or haft . It is also called u - dini . 2. I - Jozi.A stabbing assegai , with a blade as broad but longer than the isi - nkempe . 3. I - Rwana . A small - bladed weapon for throwing either in war or ...
... blade attached to a short handle or haft . It is also called u - dini . 2. I - Jozi.A stabbing assegai , with a blade as broad but longer than the isi - nkempe . 3. I - Rwana . A small - bladed weapon for throwing either in war or ...
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... blade and long round neck for throwing , D , general , the most common for all purposes 461 intshuntshe ( pron . intjuntje , but cf. intsuntshe ) 1. assegai with a long blade , D. 2. long narrow blade with no neck ; heavy spear used for ...
... blade and long round neck for throwing , D , general , the most common for all purposes 461 intshuntshe ( pron . intjuntje , but cf. intsuntshe ) 1. assegai with a long blade , D. 2. long narrow blade with no neck ; heavy spear used for ...
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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