Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1988 - Natural history |
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Page 746
... stone , soapstone , wood or red clay ( Pl . 113 : 3 , 5 , 7 , 9-11 ) , 25 to 80 mm long , about 20 mm in diameter , and ' as if squeezed with two fingers in the middle ' ( for comparison see Pl . 113 : 8 ) . Tobacco or hemp or even a ...
... stone , soapstone , wood or red clay ( Pl . 113 : 3 , 5 , 7 , 9-11 ) , 25 to 80 mm long , about 20 mm in diameter , and ' as if squeezed with two fingers in the middle ' ( for comparison see Pl . 113 : 8 ) . Tobacco or hemp or even a ...
Page 785
... stones called isivivane . Passers - by used to pick up a stone , spit on it , and say as they placed it on the pile , " Isivivane give me strength and health ” . . . . No one ever went specially to a cairn to place stones , but they ...
... stones called isivivane . Passers - by used to pick up a stone , spit on it , and say as they placed it on the pile , " Isivivane give me strength and health ” . . . . No one ever went specially to a cairn to place stones , but they ...
Page 856
... stone to sit on . ( So far no ritual significance in connection with this latter practice has been discovered . ) Nowadays planks ( ama- pheli ) or sheets of corrugated iron are the favourite vehicles , and the latter may take more than ...
... stone to sit on . ( So far no ritual significance in connection with this latter practice has been discovered . ) Nowadays planks ( ama- pheli ) or sheets of corrugated iron are the favourite vehicles , and the latter may take more than ...
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