Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1988 - Natural history |
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Page 548
... early as the 1830s , but more often the hair reached just above the shoulders ( Pl . 85 : 3 ) . The earliest description of Mpondomise women's hair - style is in 1862 , when it was like the modern Mpondo style just described . There is no ...
... early as the 1830s , but more often the hair reached just above the shoulders ( Pl . 85 : 3 ) . The earliest description of Mpondomise women's hair - style is in 1862 , when it was like the modern Mpondo style just described . There is no ...
Page 661
... early days men wore ornaments in the hair , round the head , in the ears , round the neck , round the upper arm and wrist , round the waist , below the knees , round the ankles , and on fingers and toes - in fact wherever they could ...
... early days men wore ornaments in the hair , round the head , in the ears , round the neck , round the upper arm and wrist , round the waist , below the knees , round the ankles , and on fingers and toes - in fact wherever they could ...
Page 746
... early authors , up to about 1850 , tobacco was also smoked through it . It is not certain , however , that what they saw being put into the water - pipe was in fact tobacco . It looks as if hemp - smoking in a water - pipe came first ...
... early authors , up to about 1850 , tobacco was also smoked through it . It is not certain , however , that what they saw being put into the water - pipe was in fact tobacco . It looks as if hemp - smoking in a water - pipe came first ...
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Personal and general | 449 |
Costume and insignia | 558 |
Ornament | 606 |
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abakhwetha According animal anklet apron arm-bands assegai bangles beadwork Bhaca blanket body Bomvana boys brass rings breast-cloth burial buttons Caffres calabash Cape Nguni cattle ceremony charms chief cicatrization circumcision Ciskei cloak clothing colour copper cosmetics costume covered dancing decorated diviners dolls dress Xhosa eene euphorbia finger Fingo gall-bladders garment Gcaleka girdle girls goatskin grass hair hair-style Hammond-Tooke hanging head head-band head-cloth head-dress hemp Hlubi horn Hottentots initiation intonjane ivory Kaffir kaross khwetha Kirby kopere kraal legend loin-cloth Lusikisiki Makalima medicine Mpondo Mpondomise musical bow necklace necklet ornaments Xhosa paint penis-sheath piece pipe Pondoland red clay red ochre reed round the neck skin skirt smeared smoking snuff snuff-box snuff-spoon Sotho Stavenisse stick stone string tail Thembu thong tobacco Transkei tribes Tshezi ubulunga Umtata waist water-pipe wear white beads white clay Willowvale wire woman women wore worn round Xesibe young