Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 49The Museum, 1968 - Natural history |
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... building and shaping techniques used by all potters were the same . A number of flat pieces of clay were placed on edge and joined together to form the basic shape , to which lumps of clay were added to build the vessel to the required ...
... building and shaping techniques used by all potters were the same . A number of flat pieces of clay were placed on edge and joined together to form the basic shape , to which lumps of clay were added to build the vessel to the required ...
Page 286
... Building starts the following day . ( Loeb , 1962 ) Tools 1. As a support on which to build : a potsherd ( Schofield , 1948 ) . 2. For smoothing : ( i ) inner surface - the right front hoof of an ox ( ekondo ) ; ( ii ) outer surface - a ...
... Building starts the following day . ( Loeb , 1962 ) Tools 1. As a support on which to build : a potsherd ( Schofield , 1948 ) . 2. For smoothing : ( i ) inner surface - the right front hoof of an ox ( ekondo ) ; ( ii ) outer surface - a ...
Page 315
... build ( not universal ) , smoothers for both inner and outer surfaces and implements for decoration , and their nature depends largely on availability . BUILDING Five main techniques were found , each with variations : moulding from the ...
... build ( not universal ) , smoothers for both inner and outer surfaces and implements for decoration , and their nature depends largely on availability . BUILDING Five main techniques were found , each with variations : moulding from the ...
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African Museum Expedition band Bantu beer ditto Cape carinated contracted neck cut rim Decorated with graphic district enamel paint everted neck formed firing flattened base formed with poorly-defined formed with well-defined further information graphic design graphite grooved lines Height horizontally pierced Hottentot I-FIELD incurved bowl inside Karanga Kwanyama Lemba Lobedu lump middens mouth museum records Name Ndau Nguni open-mouthed bowls outer surface overturned piece Plate point of inflection poorly-defined point pot of Type pot with short pot with upright pottery Pottery forms quartz sand admixture red burnish red ochre Rhodesia rim and flattened rim and rounded rounded base rounded rim Rozwi Rudner Schofield SECTION I-FIELD SECTION II-LITERATURE Shape smoothed Sotho South African Museum South Sotho Spherical pot stamped impressions Strandloper sub-carinated Swazi technique thickened rim Transvaal tribes trimming groove Tsonga Tswana Undecorated upright neck formed Venda vessel Warmelo well-defined point Zezuru