Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 49The Museum, 1968 - Natural history |
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... vessel . The rest of the vessel is completed after a period of drying by turning it over and shaping the other section either with or without the addition of clay ( Plate XVIII Nos . 45-48 ; Plate XIX Nos . 49–52 ) . The base of a ...
... vessel . The rest of the vessel is completed after a period of drying by turning it over and shaping the other section either with or without the addition of clay ( Plate XVIII Nos . 45-48 ; Plate XIX Nos . 49–52 ) . The base of a ...
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... vessel is put ; or visual , according to the shape of the body of the vessel or its salient features . A visual type of classification has finally been adopted as being the most practical , and pottery types were grouped as pots , bowls ...
... vessel is put ; or visual , according to the shape of the body of the vessel or its salient features . A visual type of classification has finally been adopted as being the most practical , and pottery types were grouped as pots , bowls ...
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... vessel is placed indoors to dry in a store or sleeping - hut , covered with sacking . The potter tests the condition of the vessel by tapping it with her knuckles and is able to tell by the sound whether it is sufficiently dry for ...
... vessel is placed indoors to dry in a store or sleeping - hut , covered with sacking . The potter tests the condition of the vessel by tapping it with her knuckles and is able to tell by the sound whether it is sufficiently dry for ...
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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