. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 174 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 9. Mpondo spoon, Dikela, Libode, 1969, SAM-9549. A ladle noted, UCT 23/175A (Fig. 10), has a double handle extending in the same plane from the bowl. The deep bowl is decorated with branded lines. The spoons do not vary greatly in size. Of the specimens seen, the total length lay between 28 and 40 cm, and the length of the bowl between 6 and 9 cm. One large example was seen with a 14 cm bowl (NASKO 61/4, Umtata, 1960). Decoration is most frequently by bran
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 174 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 9. Mpondo spoon, Dikela, Libode, 1969, SAM-9549. A ladle noted, UCT 23/175A (Fig. 10), has a double handle extending in the same plane from the bowl. The deep bowl is decorated with branded lines. The spoons do not vary greatly in size. Of the specimens seen, the total length lay between 28 and 40 cm, and the length of the bowl between 6 and 9 cm. One large example was seen with a 14 cm bowl (NASKO 61/4, Umtata, 1960). Decoration is most frequently by branding. A black line may run round the rim of the bowl (UCT 32/40, Holy Cross, Flagstaff), or dots, often in pairs, may be branded on part of the handle (NASKO 61/3, Umtata, 1960). Decorative carving is more rare (UCT 32/40, Holy Cross, Flagstaff). Two unusual specimens are recorded. One, made in about 1860, has a handle carved in three sprials (HW 2528, Bizana, 1911). The other is a spoon and stirrer joined by a chain, carved from a single piece of wood (HW 2527, Ngqeleni, 1919). Two types of wood were said to have been used, the light wnkhiwane {Ficus capensis (Sim 1907: 307; Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk 1962: 774, 1270)) (SAM-9549, Dikela, Libode, 1969) and the fine-grained umbomvane {Cassine crocea (Palmer & Pitman 1972 2: 1319)) (EL Eth. 4912, Dikela, Libode, 1967). Spoon carving was not a specialist occupation (Hunter 1936: 99). Spoons and stirring-sticks (SAM-7388, Flagstaff, 1955) were used for stirring food or beer (NASKO 61/5, Umtata, 1960) and individual spoons were used for eating (Smith 1955: 93), especially for Hquid foods such as amasi, sour milk (Hunter 1936: 19) (SAM-9549, Dikela, Libode, 1969; NASKO 61/3, Umtata, 1960; HW 2554, Lusikisiki, 1936; NASKO 8034, Ngqeleni, 1939). Mpondomise There is no record in the literature and the only specimen seen is a spoon 48,5 cm long, with a handle round in section and a fairly large round bowl, 9,6 cm wide. The rim of th
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