. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Fig. 16. Xhosa musical bow, Tshabo location. King William's Town, 1968, Fig. 17. Mpondo musical bow, Lusikisiki, 1948, SAM-6681. Mpondo bow (UCT 23/168) has the calabash resonator cut off at the base of the neck, and a pad of ochred cloth is packed between the resonator and the stave. A two-ply sinew thread passes through two holes in the calabash and secures it to the bow. Musical bows with calabash resonators are still seen today. 2. Drum Xhosa Moodie (1835: 250-251) recorded the use of
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Fig. 16. Xhosa musical bow, Tshabo location. King William's Town, 1968, Fig. 17. Mpondo musical bow, Lusikisiki, 1948, SAM-6681. Mpondo bow (UCT 23/168) has the calabash resonator cut off at the base of the neck, and a pad of ochred cloth is packed between the resonator and the stave. A two-ply sinew thread passes through two holes in the calabash and secures it to the bow. Musical bows with calabash resonators are still seen today. 2. Drum Xhosa Moodie (1835: 250-251) recorded the use of the calabash as a drum among the Xhosa. It was played in the Fish River area in the 1820s. It was used as an accompaniment to the singing and clapping of the women and the dancing of the men, but he gave no description of the drum. Kirby (1934: 19) stated that it was probably borrowed by the Xhosa from the Hottentots 'for such a drum is quite unknown among them [the Xhosa], and is radically different from the percussion instruments used by them in their ceremonies'. No specimens were found in museums nor seen in the 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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