Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1974 - Natural history |
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Page 176
... skin garments has virtually disappeared among the Xhosa , yielding place to garments of European manufacture . Of the two sexes , the men were first to discard their traditional costume , the skin blanket ( umnweba , ingubo ) , for ...
... skin garments has virtually disappeared among the Xhosa , yielding place to garments of European manufacture . Of the two sexes , the men were first to discard their traditional costume , the skin blanket ( umnweba , ingubo ) , for ...
Page 180
... skin was stretched taut . The flesh side was then scraped and pared evenly with an adze or axe blade until the roots of the hairs began to show . For smaller , thinner skins this process was replaced by pounding with stones on the ...
... skin was stretched taut . The flesh side was then scraped and pared evenly with an adze or axe blade until the roots of the hairs began to show . For smaller , thinner skins this process was replaced by pounding with stones on the ...
Page 181
The skin for a shield , after drying , was well pounded with a stone to toughen it and , according to Döhne , rubbed with a round stone from the outside towards the centre to make it slightly concave on the flesh side . When inner skin ...
The skin for a shield , after drying , was well pounded with a stone to toughen it and , according to Döhne , rubbed with a round stone from the outside towards the centre to make it slightly concave on the flesh side . When inner skin ...
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