. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 370 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Diviners used bags {imfutho. inhlanti, incweba, ingqaba) to hold their medi- cines and charms (Krige 1950: 309). Sometimes the bag was carried by specially appointed boys, who also prepared the medicines (Schlosser 1972: 13). The entire skin of an unborn or young calf was used to make a bag, imbaluko, in which a snuff-box was carried (Bryant 1909: 3). Old women wrapped their snuff in a roll made of the soft skin from the belly of an ox (Bryant 1949: 224). Skin b
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 370 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Diviners used bags {imfutho. inhlanti, incweba, ingqaba) to hold their medi- cines and charms (Krige 1950: 309). Sometimes the bag was carried by specially appointed boys, who also prepared the medicines (Schlosser 1972: 13). The entire skin of an unborn or young calf was used to make a bag, imbaluko, in which a snuff-box was carried (Bryant 1909: 3). Old women wrapped their snuff in a roll made of the soft skin from the belly of an ox (Bryant 1949: 224). Skin bags were also used to transport grain or other food. Milk sacks about 30 cm long and 18 cm wide, with a small mouth, were made of cowhide, which was moistened with water and stuffed with earth and dung, and left to dry and harden. These were used for sour milk before the introduction of calabashes, said to have been made by Shaka (Lebzelter 1934: 273; Bryant 1949: 271). QUIVERS Terms: isambo—quiver for carrying assegais on the bacis: . .; umgodlalo—leather weapon holder; umkhohlombe—quiver, for carrying assegais on the back when mounted; ingxiwa— leather sheath for assegais and other weapons (Doke & Vilakazi 1964). Zululand Sheaths for spears were recorded during the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 (Nor- bury 1880: 279). A hide quiver collected at this period is a tapering sheath, about 50 cm in length and 8 cm at the widest part (MVB 478, Natal, 1881). ? Southern Natal A quiver for spears, said to have been amongst the arms of the Hlubi chief Langalibalele captured in 1873, is a narrow tapering bag of stiff hide, stitched with fine thong. The carrying strap is repaired with a section of manufactured leather belt (SAM-6647, Lesotho Border, 1947) (Fig. 41).. ?.-?-? Fig. 41. Quiver for spears, allegedly belonging to the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele; SAM-6647, Lesotho Border. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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