Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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Page 290
... feet and a half long , with a round knob at the end about two inches in diameter , and very weighty , being the root of some shrub . ' 1803 Paravicini di Capelli p . 139 Xhosa : description and use of clubs ' De kirry , een ander wapen ...
... feet and a half long , with a round knob at the end about two inches in diameter , and very weighty , being the root of some shrub . ' 1803 Paravicini di Capelli p . 139 Xhosa : description and use of clubs ' De kirry , een ander wapen ...
Page 292
... feet long , generally made out of an olive stock , or shaped out of rhinoceros ' horn , which they throw with wonderful force and accuracy and can knock down a man as well as kill a hare or buck , at twenty or thirty yards , with the ...
... feet long , generally made out of an olive stock , or shaped out of rhinoceros ' horn , which they throw with wonderful force and accuracy and can knock down a man as well as kill a hare or buck , at twenty or thirty yards , with the ...
Page 300
... feet high and three feet wide . . . . ' P. 46 Xhosa : shield at marriage ... the dancers . Here they stand concealing their bodies with their shields , which are placed upright by each other , thus preventing the spectators from ...
... feet high and three feet wide . . . . ' P. 46 Xhosa : shield at marriage ... the dancers . Here they stand concealing their bodies with their shields , which are placed upright by each other , thus preventing the spectators from ...
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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