. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOME NGUNI CRAFTS: WOOD-CARVING 301 STICKS Term: induku—knobkcrhe (O'Neil 1911: 235). Matabele sticks were about 1 m long with relatively small heads (SAM- 10193, Essexvale, 1973; Queenstown and Frontier museum 44, Matabeleland, 1895). They might be decorated with grooving and branding (SAM-10193, Essexvale, 1973). The head was carved from the root, and the shaft from the trunk of a tree (Tjolotjo, 1973). Sticks about 90 cm long with a small round head and decorated with wire work were carried by imp
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOME NGUNI CRAFTS: WOOD-CARVING 301 STICKS Term: induku—knobkcrhe (O'Neil 1911: 235). Matabele sticks were about 1 m long with relatively small heads (SAM- 10193, Essexvale, 1973; Queenstown and Frontier museum 44, Matabeleland, 1895). They might be decorated with grooving and branding (SAM-10193, Essexvale, 1973). The head was carved from the root, and the shaft from the trunk of a tree (Tjolotjo, 1973). Sticks about 90 cm long with a small round head and decorated with wire work were carried by important people (Muller & Snelleman 1893, pi. 16, figs. 4-5). A pair of metre-long sticks, the thickness of a finger, were amongst the weapons carried on the march (Holub 1893: 186). 'Long white wands' (Moffat 1842: 534) or sticks with the tree bark removed but otherwise unworked, were held by dancing women at ceremonies (Anderson 1888: 375). A stick with a carved snake, representing the amadlozi or ancestor spirits, was formerly used only by diviners as a dancing stick at curing-dances (Essexvale, 1973). A specimen in the South African Museum is 1 m long, and is made of ucane {Rhus lancea (Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk 1962: 1317)) (SAM- 10191, Essexvale, 1973) (Fig. 117). RITUAL OBJECTS DIVINING-TABLETS Term: /Vowio—divining-bone (Hughes & Van Velsen 1955: 107). Sets of divining-tablets consisting of flat roughly rectangular pieces of wood about 10 cm long and 3 cm wide, with a small projection at one narrow end, and carved in conventional designs on one face, were used by Matabele diviners (Hughes & Van Velsen 1955: 107) (Bulawayo Natn. Mus. ^ (2647) and ^ (2648), Matabeleland, no date) (Fig. 118). The tablets might be carved from different coloured woods, for example, red and white (Bulawayo Natn. Mus. Yxi C^^"^^)' Matabeleland, no date).. Fig. 117. Ndebele stick, Essexvale. 1973, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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