Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1976 - Natural history |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 68
Page 201
... tree ( umnquma ) which is usually carried bound up with a bundle of assegais , used for first defence ; umnqayi - Eleodendron velutinum , a forest tree furnishing the long pointed stick , without a knob , used as a weapon in single ...
... tree ( umnquma ) which is usually carried bound up with a bundle of assegais , used for first defence ; umnqayi - Eleodendron velutinum , a forest tree furnishing the long pointed stick , without a knob , used as a weapon in single ...
Page 303
... tree - felling and hunting were forbidden by the chiefs , but no record of such restrictions in the other areas has been found . The influx of white farmers brought pressure on land , and later the government imposed restrictions on tree ...
... tree - felling and hunting were forbidden by the chiefs , but no record of such restrictions in the other areas has been found . The influx of white farmers brought pressure on land , and later the government imposed restrictions on tree ...
Page 304
... trees felled when the sap flow was low was preferred . It appears that the timber was seasoned for certain types of carving where durability would be particularly valued . Southern Nguni pipe - makers , for example , chose a dead tree ...
... trees felled when the sap flow was low was preferred . It appears that the timber was seasoned for certain types of carving where durability would be particularly valued . Southern Nguni pipe - makers , for example , chose a dead tree ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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