. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Wilton Industry. 269 ADDENDUM. The Manufacture of Ostrich Egg-shell Beads among Modern Bush-Folk. Mr. James Drury of the South African Museum has for the last twenty years been perfecting a process for casting posed figures of the living body. The results of his work are housed in the Museum, and give an interesting survey of the racial types grouped under the term " ; He has given me an interesting account of the process of manufacturing ostrich egg-shell beads employed by the.
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Wilton Industry. 269 ADDENDUM. The Manufacture of Ostrich Egg-shell Beads among Modern Bush-Folk. Mr. James Drury of the South African Museum has for the last twenty years been perfecting a process for casting posed figures of the living body. The results of his work are housed in the Museum, and give an interesting survey of the racial types grouped under the term " ; He has given me an interesting account of the process of manufacturing ostrich egg-shell beads employed by the. Text-fig. 2.—Beads, fragments of egg-shell, bead-borers, and a shaping stone from various Wilton Industry sites. Naron tribe,* near Sandfontein (about 20° E. by 22° S.). The bead- making is done by the women of the horde. A woman takes an ostrich egg-shell which she breaks into large pieces ; she then bites these into bits about half an inch across. One fragment is now placed on a hard piece of skin and an iron-pointed wooden drill some 20 inches long is applied to the centre of the fragment. The drill is held between the open palms of the hands, and rotated rapidly to and fro. When the shell is almost pierced, it is reversed and the drilling con- cluded from the opposite face. A pointed rimer, consisting of a small handle of wood in which is a fragment of iron, is inserted and the hole carefully rounded and finished off. The fragment of shell is roughly trimmed to a disc by placing it on an anvil stone and chipping * See also Miss Bleek, The Naron, University of Cape Town, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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