. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 98 Annals of the South African Museum. This is the more surprising considering that these awls were used for stitching skins together—which is undoubtedly the case—for the aborigines had close at hand the hard, long thorns of several Acacia- trees, which would have proved quite as effective. But custom dies hard, as the whole account of our South African neolithic industry proves but too well. An examination of these awls or bodkins shows that those from the cave-shelters of the seaboard are of a bett
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 98 Annals of the South African Museum. This is the more surprising considering that these awls were used for stitching skins together—which is undoubtedly the case—for the aborigines had close at hand the hard, long thorns of several Acacia- trees, which would have proved quite as effective. But custom dies hard, as the whole account of our South African neolithic industry proves but too well. An examination of these awls or bodkins shows that those from the cave-shelters of the seaboard are of a better finish and also the. Fig. 9. x ^. most effective, cj. Cuts 3 to 7 of Fig. 193. The long awls of Fig. 194 are made of the hollow wing-bones of sea-birds, and two of these are the only objects of stone or bone known to me that show decoration. Cut 1 of Fig. 193 is very massive. Its perfectly smoothed anterior part is difficult to explain, but it would prove useful in smoothing the hole of the ! kwe, several of which were found in the necropolis where this boring tool was discovered. Cuts 6 and 7 of Fig. 193 might have served equally well as arrow. 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; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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