Natural history . A HOE FROM KHAMAS KINGDOM, BECHUANALAND The blade is about 2 feet long women. The chief agricultural implement is the hoe. The hoe ofBechuanaland is a large leaf-shaped iron blade in a short wooden handle,while the hoes in Barotseland have small thin metal blades, similar tomodern American hoes. The products of their fields are Kaffir corn(a kind of millet), Indian corn and yams. The villages are groups ofcircular, thatched huts, often clustered around the cattle kraal of a people are skilled in the manufacture of pottery and woodenvessels. The wooden vessels are
Natural history . A HOE FROM KHAMAS KINGDOM, BECHUANALAND The blade is about 2 feet long women. The chief agricultural implement is the hoe. The hoe ofBechuanaland is a large leaf-shaped iron blade in a short wooden handle,while the hoes in Barotseland have small thin metal blades, similar tomodern American hoes. The products of their fields are Kaffir corn(a kind of millet), Indian corn and yams. The villages are groups ofcircular, thatched huts, often clustered around the cattle kraal of a people are skilled in the manufacture of pottery and woodenvessels. The wooden vessels are carved from tree trunks, hollowedout with the adze and finished with a peculiar hooked knife. The. LU - Q •- o -JL I -; a - *Z? SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICAN COLLECTION 7! I surface of the vessel is burned with a hot iron and afterwards smearedwith hot bees wax, which is thoroughly rubbed into the wood, givingthe surface a dead black finish. Perhaps the finest type of woodenvessel is the oval flat tureen with a lid. On the top of the lid is usuallya carved elephant, hippopotamus or other large quadruped. Pottery is of several forms, varying from large handsome jars tosmall drinking cups with handles. The most common type, however,is the water bottle. Two kinds of clay are used, which are mixed incertain proportions and modeledby a combination of the coil and ^^ beating processes. In the begin-ning, the bottom of the pot isfashioned in a shallow basket-work tray, which is turned witlithe left hand somewhat afterthe fashion of a potters of the pottery in the collec-tion is red, but decorated withtriangular designs in black ordark red- These designs arequite simple and consist usu
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