Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1991 - Natural history |
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Page 195
... Thin bark is widely used for basketwork in many areas . It is stripped from the stem and dried ; it may be boiled to toughen it . The Chop : finally rub the bark of Brachystegia with Trichilia emetica seeds to make it soft . Natural ...
... Thin bark is widely used for basketwork in many areas . It is stripped from the stem and dried ; it may be boiled to toughen it . The Chop : finally rub the bark of Brachystegia with Trichilia emetica seeds to make it soft . Natural ...
Page 199
... thin slivers of wood about 6-10 mm wide and 2 mm thick and used for both warp and weft in check or twilled woven work - mostly twilled . It is particularly com- monly used for shallow winnowing trays in the central area and the rather ...
... thin slivers of wood about 6-10 mm wide and 2 mm thick and used for both warp and weft in check or twilled woven work - mostly twilled . It is particularly com- monly used for shallow winnowing trays in the central area and the rather ...
Page 213
... thin simple flexible element . A thin twisted line or cord of two- or more ply ; used for fastening anything . A long narrow piece ; to pull or tear off . A line or long narrow division of anything of different colour or texture from ...
... thin simple flexible element . A thin twisted line or cord of two- or more ply ; used for fastening anything . A long narrow piece ; to pull or tear off . A line or long narrow division of anything of different colour or texture from ...
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Alcyonium anthocodiae Anthomastus anthostele autozooids bands basketwork Bayer beer-strainers boiled with material calyces Cape Province capitulum Capnella capstans chequer Clavularia coenenchyme coil foundation coll cord costellae cylindrical decorative depth diagonal digitiform distal eastern Cape Province edge elements Eleutherobia escutcheon fabric flank costae foundation strands G. C. Williams genera genus grain-bins Hickson Hoepen holotype hoops Indo-Pacific Inhaca Kitchin knotted Krauss Kükenthal Kwanyama lattice twine length marginal carina mats Mozambique Myophorella Natal Ndau Ndebele nepionic stages Nguni octocorals ornament Oshikango oversewing Pieterfaurea Pisotrigonia plain plaited polyparium polyps Pterotrigonia retracted retractile ribs round SAN DIEGO Scale bar sclerites selvedge sewing strand sleeping-mats soft corals Sotho South African Museum southern Africa specimens stalk Steinmanella stitch stolons straight sewn subfamily surface technique Thomson Tixier-Durivault Transkei Trigonia Trigoniidae Tsonga Tswana tuberculate spindles twilled twisted Type species umbones Valanginian Venda Verseveldt warp and weft weave weft winnowing baskets woven Zimbabwe Zulu