Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1976 - Natural history |
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SUMMARY Ivory differed from horn and bone in that it was more rare and had greater prestige attached to it . Traditionally chiefs controlled the use of and trade in ivory . Of the few ivory objects which were recorded the most important ...
SUMMARY Ivory differed from horn and bone in that it was more rare and had greater prestige attached to it . Traditionally chiefs controlled the use of and trade in ivory . Of the few ivory objects which were recorded the most important ...
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... ivory to the proper size , and then saw the long teeth with a rough piece of iron , is no small task . . . ' . No ivory snuff - spoons were seen in museum collections nor were any seen in the field . Southern Natal , Msinga area ...
... ivory to the proper size , and then saw the long teeth with a rough piece of iron , is no small task . . . ' . No ivory snuff - spoons were seen in museum collections nor were any seen in the field . Southern Natal , Msinga area ...
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... ivory ( Weiss 1963 : 63 ) . No other references to the use of ivory were found . USE OF IVORY BY THE NORTHERN TRANSVAAL NDEBELE No information was recorded . USE OF IVORY BY THE RHODESIAN NDEBELE The chief commanded all available ivory ...
... ivory ( Weiss 1963 : 63 ) . No other references to the use of ivory were found . USE OF IVORY BY THE NORTHERN TRANSVAAL NDEBELE No information was recorded . USE OF IVORY BY THE RHODESIAN NDEBELE The chief commanded all available ivory ...
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aeolianite beach beads Bergville Bhaca Bomvana bone bowl branded Breyer-Brandwijk 1962 calabash calcrete campestris Cape Nguni Cape Town carved Cave climatic club cm long coastal Cordon decorated deposits Doke & Vilakazi Drakensberg Drakensberg area dune Durban Essexvale estuaries eustatic fossil geol glacial gourd gravel Groblersdal handle headrests Hlubi hole Holocene hominid horn information was obtained Ingwavuma interglacial ivory Kirby Krige Kropf ladle Libode locality Mahlabatini marine melanotis Mfengu milk calabash milk-pail mortar Mpondo Mpondomise Msinga area museum specimens musical bow NASKO Natal Natal Nguni Ndzundza necklet Nguni Nongoma penis-sheaths Pietersburg pipes plages Pleistocene Potgietersrus Quaternary Raphicerus recorded red sand River samples sea-level sediments shaft shorelines snuff-boxes snuff-spoons South African Museum southern Africa Southern Natal species specimens seen spoon St Lucia stick stools surface Swazi Terms Thembu Tjolotjo transgression Tugela upper Warmelo Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk Weiss wood wooden Xesibe Xhosa Zebediela Zulu Zululand