. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 150 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM which they could have been made are given in Table 8. The numbers in them- selves have reduced significance when it is appreciated that a modern Bushman necklace requires about five ostrich egg-shell beads per centimetre of string length. From this it can be calculated that some 2 000 beads would be required for a typical multi-stranded necklace or about 8 000 beads for an apron. The large numbers of ostrich egg-shell beads at a site such as DK 1 are thus explai
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 150 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM which they could have been made are given in Table 8. The numbers in them- selves have reduced significance when it is appreciated that a modern Bushman necklace requires about five ostrich egg-shell beads per centimetre of string length. From this it can be calculated that some 2 000 beads would be required for a typical multi-stranded necklace or about 8 000 beads for an apron. The large numbers of ostrich egg-shell beads at a site such as DK 1 are thus explained. Containers Both ostrich egg-shell and marine shell recovered from DK 1 represent material apparently used as containers. The ostrich egg-shell fragments were worked to a concave edge which is thought to have formed part of the original aperture of a water container (Fig. 22L). The use of such containers has been. J?3 ,w „ cm. 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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