. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 6 b ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Xhosa Gitywa (1971: 133) gives the following account of the making of the horn mouthpiece of an umbhekaphesheya pipe: 'The tip of a black cow's horn is usually preferred. The tip is sawn off at the point where the hollowness of the horn ends, a position which is marked by the difference in colour between the tip of the horn, incam, and the rest of the horn, isigodlo. A sharpened, thick plain wire is burnt red hot and used to bore through the horn from the broad
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 6 b ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Xhosa Gitywa (1971: 133) gives the following account of the making of the horn mouthpiece of an umbhekaphesheya pipe: 'The tip of a black cow's horn is usually preferred. The tip is sawn off at the point where the hollowness of the horn ends, a position which is marked by the difference in colour between the tip of the horn, incam, and the rest of the horn, isigodlo. A sharpened, thick plain wire is burnt red hot and used to bore through the horn from the broad end. When this is done the horn is whittled straight with a knife in relation to the direction of the bore, care being taken to make the sides as equal as possible. Before the horn is whittled down to its desired size, a tennon, uphondlo, is made on the horn and fitted into the already made mortice in the pipe stem. . .' A horn mouthpiece is also used in a Xhosa pipe, the style of which is borrowed from a certain type of European pipe. This mouthpiece differs from the one above in that it is curved. After the bore has been drilled and the mouthpiece carved to the correct shape it is heated and bent to the desired angle (SAM-9600, Kentani, 1969). Thembu Two examples of pipes from the Cala district have horn mouthpieces, similar to the curved Xhosa example above. Both mouthpieces are bent at an angle and fitted into a roughly U-shaped pipe (SAM-10304, 10313, Cala, 1935) (Fig. 4).. ^1. 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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