. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CAPE NGUNI 751 not take a separate mouthpiece. An unusual example seen was carved entirely out of horn (PI. 114: 2). Yet another sort of tobacco pipe, called iklam, has a stem or mouthpiece of horn, shaped, heated and bent into a curve. It does not have a separate mouth- piece. It is used by men only (Fig. 22). More rarely this sort of tobacco pipe or. lip iji i iiii|iiiiiiii|ilil|liii;iiiiiiiipii|iiii|lii^ 7 •!• ik *|o d» *b *p 2»* 2'5 7 Fig. 22. Wooden pipe, iklam type,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CAPE NGUNI 751 not take a separate mouthpiece. An unusual example seen was carved entirely out of horn (PI. 114: 2). Yet another sort of tobacco pipe, called iklam, has a stem or mouthpiece of horn, shaped, heated and bent into a curve. It does not have a separate mouth- piece. It is used by men only (Fig. 22). More rarely this sort of tobacco pipe or. lip iji i iiii|iiiiiiii|ilil|liii;iiiiiiiipii|iiii|lii^ 7 •!• ik *|o d» *b *p 2»* 2'5 7 Fig. 22. Wooden pipe, iklam type, Thembu, Q>la, 1935 (SAM-10307). Total width 107 mm. just the head was carved out of soapstone. like the Khoi (Hottentot) fashion in the west. Wooden pipes (PI. 114: 1, 3-9) became and have remained a tremendous vogue among the Xhosa, men and women, and though Kay in the 1820s thought that they were 'prodigiously clumsy' they were later very elegantly made. The decoration of the bowl particularly gave rise to a display of artistic talent that is not often demonstrated in Xhosa material culture. Sometimes the bowl or stem is carved into a variety of human, animal, or conventional shapes (PI. 114: 3); sometimes bowl and stem are quite plain but beautiful in form and in the wood used, especially in the exploitation of the dark centre wood. Sometimes a plain bowl is decorated with brass, copper or zinc applique, fixed on with tiny metal tacks, or sometimes patterns are inlaid with melted lead (PL 114: 1,4), which was run into previously prepared incisions while the pipe was laid in the sand. This latter technique was practised as early as 1837, and is said still to be used today but was i. 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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