Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1974 - Natural history |
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... piece of railway - line as an anvil , and emery - paper or -cloth , or a rough piece of dolerite to shape the edge . In addition to spears , other objects are made out of scrap iron , or old cutlery , for personal use or sometimes for ...
... piece of railway - line as an anvil , and emery - paper or -cloth , or a rough piece of dolerite to shape the edge . In addition to spears , other objects are made out of scrap iron , or old cutlery , for personal use or sometimes for ...
Page 209
... piece . In skin garments with the hair on , a piece with the same colour hair as on the garment was chosen if possible , and it was then so neatly inserted that it was hard to see the patch from the hairy side . SUMMARY The Cape Nguni ...
... piece . In skin garments with the hair on , a piece with the same colour hair as on the garment was chosen if possible , and it was then so neatly inserted that it was hard to see the patch from the hairy side . SUMMARY The Cape Nguni ...
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... piece of calabash rind , or wood . TONGS According to Alberti , a piece of tough and pliable wood was split to make a pair of tongs for the smith . Morgan states that the wood was green . There is no name for it and it does not appear ...
... piece of calabash rind , or wood . TONGS According to Alberti , a piece of tough and pliable wood was split to make a pair of tongs for the smith . Morgan states that the wood was green . There is no name for it and it does not appear ...
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plates and 1 textfigure | 104 |
Pottery | 127 |
Woodcarving | 140 |
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According Alberti aloe animal assegai Bantu baskets basketwork beads beadwork beer Bhaca bird-lime blade Bomvana Caffres calabash Cape Nguni Cape tribes carried carved cattle Ciskei clay club coiled colour confirmed diam Döhne eene eenen Elliotdale 1948 Fingo fire fire-sticks fish Fritsch goats grass grinding-stones Griqualand East ground Hammond-Tooke hide Hlubi horn Hottentots Hunter hunting informants iron isando isithebe Kaffir kaross knife knob knobkerries kraal Lusikisiki Lusikisiki 1948 maize metal milk milk-basket milk-sack mortar Mp Xes Mpondo Mpondomise Mt Ayliff Museum ochre okanye ornaments piece PLATE plough Pondoland pots pottery pron sedge sewing sewn shaft shape sharpened Shaw shield skin skin-dressing smelting Smith sneezewood Soga Sotho spade spear spoon Stavenisse stick stone Thembu thong Transkei trap Umtata utensils vessels weapons Willowvale women wood wooden wordt woven Xes Bh Xesibe Xhosa Zoll Zulu