Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1974 - Natural history |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 45
Page 130
... usually a female , took a lump of this , and with her hands and a piece of wood laboriously moulded , bumba , the clay into the shape desired , giving it a thickness of from a quarter to half an inch . ' ( 1932 ) Soga p . 407 Nothing ...
... usually a female , took a lump of this , and with her hands and a piece of wood laboriously moulded , bumba , the clay into the shape desired , giving it a thickness of from a quarter to half an inch . ' ( 1932 ) Soga p . 407 Nothing ...
Page 159
usually practised in the autumn and winter when materials are plentiful , and garden work is slack . There are two basic techniques of basketwork : woven ( Pl . 30 : 2 , 4-6 ) and sewn ( Pl . 28 ) . In woven work the sets of elements ...
usually practised in the autumn and winter when materials are plentiful , and garden work is slack . There are two basic techniques of basketwork : woven ( Pl . 30 : 2 , 4-6 ) and sewn ( Pl . 28 ) . In woven work the sets of elements ...
Page 236
... usually sit on a platform ( iqonga ) erected in the fields , and shout at the birds or fling lumps of mud from the end of a pliant stick ( intsawulo ) ( Pl . 34 : 1 ) . Temporary huts ( iphempe ) are erected at the edges of the fields ...
... usually sit on a platform ( iqonga ) erected in the fields , and shout at the birds or fling lumps of mud from the end of a pliant stick ( intsawulo ) ( Pl . 34 : 1 ) . Temporary huts ( iphempe ) are erected at the edges of the fields ...
Contents
plates and 1 textfigure | 104 |
Pottery | 127 |
Woodcarving | 140 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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