. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ithunga: obsolete, Xhosa and Thembu. Basketwork milk pail, for milking into or forholding milk (Figs 12,13); still known and used for holding milk by Hlubi up to 1901, andsome Bhaca in 1948. Ithunga now generally means a milk pail of any material. Imbenga:obsolete, Xhosa and Thembu, a milk vessel. Techniques Fabric: coiled sewn with fine furcate sewing on multiple foundation (Fig. 1Z). Beginning: closed ring of foundation (Fig. 1HH); knot in sewing (Fig. IKK). Method of work: not known. Shaping: placing of coil (Fig
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ithunga: obsolete, Xhosa and Thembu. Basketwork milk pail, for milking into or forholding milk (Figs 12,13); still known and used for holding milk by Hlubi up to 1901, andsome Bhaca in 1948. Ithunga now generally means a milk pail of any material. Imbenga:obsolete, Xhosa and Thembu, a milk vessel. Techniques Fabric: coiled sewn with fine furcate sewing on multiple foundation (Fig. 1Z). Beginning: closed ring of foundation (Fig. 1HH); knot in sewing (Fig. IKK). Method of work: not known. Shaping: placing of coil (Fig. 2D). Shape: bowl-shaped, some with walls slightly incurved to mouth. Edge: plain oversewing; oversewing two-ply cord; blanket-stitch (Fig. 2BB). Finishing: not known. Decoration: spaced vertical lines of sewing (Fig. 3Q). Ornamentation: none. Utilitarian addition: handle (Fig. 3CC); lid (Fig. 3Z). Tools No reference, but an awl must have been used. Materials Foundation: stripped sedge; : stripped sedge, plain or : two-ply cord of plant
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