Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1988 - Natural history |
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Page 502
... front with a bright square of yellow or red cloth bound firmly round the buttocks and open in the front to allow the bead skirt to be seen . Apart from bangles , necklaces and a bead chaplet this is all the clothing a young girl needs ...
... front with a bright square of yellow or red cloth bound firmly round the buttocks and open in the front to allow the bead skirt to be seen . Apart from bangles , necklaces and a bead chaplet this is all the clothing a young girl needs ...
Page 540
... front or may have wrapped right over , and a double skirt open down the front , the doubling being achieved by tying the single thickness at the waist and allowing the upper half to fall over the lower one ( Pls 70 : 5 ; 72 : 2 , 3 ) ...
... front or may have wrapped right over , and a double skirt open down the front , the doubling being achieved by tying the single thickness at the waist and allowing the upper half to fall over the lower one ( Pls 70 : 5 ; 72 : 2 , 3 ) ...
Page 541
... front and two back , of a thinner material than blanket or sheeting . The two back pieces hung open to show the front piece ( Pl . 87 : 3 , 4 ) . In 1955 , Xesibe women at Gugweni store said that there were four pieces , two in front ...
... front and two back , of a thinner material than blanket or sheeting . The two back pieces hung open to show the front piece ( Pl . 87 : 3 , 4 ) . In 1955 , Xesibe women at Gugweni store said that there were four pieces , two in front ...
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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