. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOME NGUNI CRAFTS: CALABASHES 57 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1. Musical bow Terms: Type 1: ligubu—musical bow (Kirby 1934: 197). Type 2: wnakweyana—musical bow with the string tied back to the stave (Kirby 1934: 205). The two types of musical bows used among the Swazi are the same as those of the Natal Nguni. According to Kirby (1934: 201), the second type of musical bow was unknown to the Cape Nguni, and was apparently adopted by the Zulu and Swazi only in recent times. Type 1 is the 'classic' stringed inst
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOME NGUNI CRAFTS: CALABASHES 57 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1. Musical bow Terms: Type 1: ligubu—musical bow (Kirby 1934: 197). Type 2: wnakweyana—musical bow with the string tied back to the stave (Kirby 1934: 205). The two types of musical bows used among the Swazi are the same as those of the Natal Nguni. According to Kirby (1934: 201), the second type of musical bow was unknown to the Cape Nguni, and was apparently adopted by the Zulu and Swazi only in recent times. Type 1 is the 'classic' stringed instrument of the Swazi, ligubu, where the bow-string is generally secured by means of a peg at the lower end and a V-notch at the upper end. The calabash resonator is fastened to the bow by means of a loop or knot. On one example seen (NASKO 6270, no locality, 1921) there is a cloth pad between the bow and the calabash. Type 2, the umakweyana, is similarly constructed, the only difference being that the string is tied back to the stave to give two chords (Marwick 1966: 82). An umakweyana was seen in Pigg's Peak (SAM-10065, 1971, Fig. 47). The string which is tied back to the stave also held the calabash resonator in position. The string was struck with a reed. PENIS-SHEATHS Terms: umncatfo — penis-sheath (Marwick 1966: 85). Marwick wrote that 'just before the age of puberty is reached a boy is given a penis covering umncat\o made of a small kind of calabash . . or of the small shell of a fruit called umthongwane'; (snuff-box tree: umthon- gwane, Oncoba spinosa Forsk. (Doke & Vilakazi 1964). No information was found in museum collections or in the Fig. 47. Swazi musical bow {umakweyana) Pigg's Peak, 1971, 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 Tow
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