Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 49The Museum, 1968 - Natural history |
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... built , or into a squat cone , the pointed end of which is placed in soft sand . The form is then hollowed with the fingers , the sides being squeezed and smoothed up and out to give the required size and shape ( Plate X Nos . 20 & 21 ...
... built , or into a squat cone , the pointed end of which is placed in soft sand . The form is then hollowed with the fingers , the sides being squeezed and smoothed up and out to give the required size and shape ( Plate X Nos . 20 & 21 ...
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... built with an open base may be started with pieces of clay of no particular size or shape placed in a ring and smoothed together and upwards and then built up with rolls of clay added to form rings ( Kwena , South Sotho ) . There are ...
... built with an open base may be started with pieces of clay of no particular size or shape placed in a ring and smoothed together and upwards and then built up with rolls of clay added to form rings ( Kwena , South Sotho ) . There are ...
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... built . Burnishing is carried out when the pots are dry . Ochre for colour is baked before being mixed with water for application . Firing : Two people are required to carry large pots to the fireplace ( Butha Buthe ) . They are fired ...
... built . Burnishing is carried out when the pots are dry . Ochre for colour is baked before being mixed with water for application . Firing : Two people are required to carry large pots to the fireplace ( Butha Buthe ) . They are fired ...
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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