. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 136 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. CM I 1 1 1 Fig. 49. Comb-like snuff-spoons (Type 3), Zululand, 1907, NM 814. Southern Natal A snufF-spoon collected among the Lala tribe has a deep, elongated, oval bowl and tapered handle. It is decorated with incised, blackened triangles on the underside (NM 2400, 1916). Msinga area, Drakensberg area No information was recorded. SWEAT-SCRAPERS Terms: uphephela —hone or horn sweat-scraper (Doke & Vilakazi 1964); ubambo — scraper (used for removing sweat, c
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 136 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. CM I 1 1 1 Fig. 49. Comb-like snuff-spoons (Type 3), Zululand, 1907, NM 814. Southern Natal A snufF-spoon collected among the Lala tribe has a deep, elongated, oval bowl and tapered handle. It is decorated with incised, blackened triangles on the underside (NM 2400, 1916). Msinga area, Drakensberg area No information was recorded. SWEAT-SCRAPERS Terms: uphephela —hone or horn sweat-scraper (Doke & Vilakazi 1964); ubambo — scraper (used for removing sweat, cleaning nostrils etc. generally made of rib-bone) (Doke & Vilakazi 1964); isikhwece ~cuy\q<1 bone or horn face-scraper (Krige 1950: 398). Zululand Krauss (1969: 212) referred to 'a type of spatula with a daintily chiselled handle made from the bones of oxen, more rarely made from ebony and which took the place of a handkerchief*. Rib-bones seem to have been particularly suitable for making sweat-scrapers because of their length and thinness. Two Zulu scrapers which were examined are thin, curved sections of rib-bone smoothed off and carved to a rounded point at one end, but are otherwise uncarved (SAM-6733, Zululand 1871-76; NASKO 8038, Pietermaritzburg 1939) (Fig. 50). Three other Zulu examples are straight pieces of bone with a carved serrated edge at one end and a point at the other (HW 2138, 2139, 2140, Durban, no date). No information on sweat-scrapers was obtained in the field. Southern Natal, Msinga area, Drakensberg area No information was 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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