Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 49The Museum, 1968 - Natural history |
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South African Museum. FIRING The firing of the pottery is the climax of the whole process and is under- taken with much care . The potter chooses a day which , according to her experience and intuition , will be suitable . Potters ...
South African Museum. FIRING The firing of the pottery is the climax of the whole process and is under- taken with much care . The potter chooses a day which , according to her experience and intuition , will be suitable . Potters ...
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... firing . Washing ' blue ' or oil paint is used by potters in the Qumbu district , or a vessel may be blackened after firing by smoking it in a sheep or goat manure fire . ( Ntusi ) In the Matatiele district the same effect is obtained ...
... firing . Washing ' blue ' or oil paint is used by potters in the Qumbu district , or a vessel may be blackened after firing by smoking it in a sheep or goat manure fire . ( Ntusi ) In the Matatiele district the same effect is obtained ...
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... firing , particularly where they had a large trade and fuels were scarce . This was definitely a matter of personal preference . Firing takes place out of doors in a slight hollow , a deep hole , on a stretch of level ground or in a ...
... firing , particularly where they had a large trade and fuels were scarce . This was definitely a matter of personal preference . Firing takes place out of doors in a slight hollow , a deep hole , on a stretch of level ground or in a ...
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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