Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... century , after the introduction of horses , mounted men carried their spears in a quiver slung over one shoulder . During the nineteenth century fire - arms were obtained from the Colony and in the later wars were used almost ...
... century , after the introduction of horses , mounted men carried their spears in a quiver slung over one shoulder . During the nineteenth century fire - arms were obtained from the Colony and in the later wars were used almost ...
Page 432
... century the only implements mentioned in the records were the wooden spade and a pointed stick for digging , a spear - blade for reaping and a stick for thresh- ing . The crops mentioned during that period were sorghum , pumpkins ...
... century the only implements mentioned in the records were the wooden spade and a pointed stick for digging , a spear - blade for reaping and a stick for thresh- ing . The crops mentioned during that period were sorghum , pumpkins ...
Page 435
... century , have fished as well . Shipwrecked people in the seventeenth century reported finding ' fish garths ' full of fish , which they took . The garths might have been of Hottentot origin , although the people amongst whom they found ...
... century , have fished as well . Shipwrecked people in the seventeenth century reported finding ' fish garths ' full of fish , which they took . The garths might have been of Hottentot origin , although the people amongst whom they found ...
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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