Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1972 - Natural history |
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Page 85
... dung , or the grain - pit has ceased to be fit for use . GRANARIES : SOURCES 1686-8 ( Stavenisse ) p . 66 Xhosa ... dung , the rest is filled up with earth taken from the kraal ; in these pits the corn remains dry , as the cow dung keeps ...
... dung , or the grain - pit has ceased to be fit for use . GRANARIES : SOURCES 1686-8 ( Stavenisse ) p . 66 Xhosa ... dung , the rest is filled up with earth taken from the kraal ; in these pits the corn remains dry , as the cow dung keeps ...
Page 91
... dung , and the whole covered with dry cow - dung and earth . When the pit is in the cattle kraal the mouth is hidden by the trampling of cattle over it . Pits are used season after season , but before being used they are opened up and ...
... dung , and the whole covered with dry cow - dung and earth . When the pit is in the cattle kraal the mouth is hidden by the trampling of cattle over it . Pits are used season after season , but before being used they are opened up and ...
Page 96
... dung , or more commonly smeared with dung alone , and dried out by fire . When the pit has been filled the grain is covered with dry grass , or the stalks or threshed cobs of the corn , and then a flat stone ( isikiko ) is laid over the ...
... dung , or more commonly smeared with dung alone , and dried out by fire . When the pit has been filled the grain is covered with dry grass , or the stalks or threshed cobs of the corn , and then a flat stone ( isikiko ) is laid over the ...
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abandoned according African Museum ANONYMOUS Ayliff Baines Bantu basket beehive hut Berliner Missionsberichte Bhaca Bomvana Bonatz built calves Cape Nguni Cape Town cattle kraal cattle-fold cattle-kraal cattle-posts centre chief circular Ciskei clay corn cow-dung death doorway Duggan-Cronin dung enclosure entrance Ethnol fastened feet fence Fingo floor frame Fritsch gardens grain grain-pit granary grass Hammond-Tooke hearth hedge Hlubi homestead Hottentots hut Xhosa Hütten indlu inkundla inside intsika inyango irontawuli isibaya isisele Johannesburg Kaffern Kaffir Kropf Lond London Lovedale Lusikisiki maize Mp Xes Mpondo Mpondomise Natal native Ngqeleni Periodical Accounts plastered poles Pondoland Riebeeck Society Publications roof rope round huts screen Shaw side Soga Sotho South Africa southern Africa Stavenisse stone store-hut Stud style text-fig thatch Theal Thembu Transkei tribes ubuhlanti udladla Umtata umzi United Brethren wall wattle wattle and daub wicker door Willowvale Willowvale 1948 women Xes Bh Xhosa Zuid-Afrika