Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... shield . ' 1829 Bain p . 103 , note 54 Mpondo : shield ' The Kaross of the Amapondo which , by the way , he hardly ever wears , though composed of the same materials as that of the Caffre is much smaller . His arms are nearly similar ...
... shield . ' 1829 Bain p . 103 , note 54 Mpondo : shield ' The Kaross of the Amapondo which , by the way , he hardly ever wears , though composed of the same materials as that of the Caffre is much smaller . His arms are nearly similar ...
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... shields Thembu : use of shield Xhosa : height of shield Xhosa : shield Fingo : shields Fingo : sleep under shield ' At dawn , he rose to reconnoitre , and , looking below , beheld , as he imagined , an immense herd of cattle . As the ...
... shields Thembu : use of shield Xhosa : height of shield Xhosa : shield Fingo : shields Fingo : sleep under shield ' At dawn , he rose to reconnoitre , and , looking below , beheld , as he imagined , an immense herd of cattle . As the ...
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SHIELDS The chief defensive weapon was the shield ( ikhaka , isihlangu ) which was held in the left hand to deflect the opposing spears , or poisoned arrows if the enemy were Bushmen . In this latter case a man crouched down behind his ...
SHIELDS The chief defensive weapon was the shield ( ikhaka , isihlangu ) which was held in the left hand to deflect the opposing spears , or poisoned arrows if the enemy were Bushmen . In this latter case a man crouched down behind his ...
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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