. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 288 Annals of the South African Museum. carving, particularly in Griqualand West and the Transkei, and even they are frequently inlaid, though generally not as elaborately, plain bands being the most common (Plate LXXXVI, figs. 3 to 7). Both wood and soapstone pipes frequently have fitted on to the stem a carved end of another substance, horn, bone, or lead, into which the mouthpiece is inserted (Plate XCVIII, figs. 5, a and 6, a). In Basutoland there was common until quite recently a true corn- cob
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 288 Annals of the South African Museum. carving, particularly in Griqualand West and the Transkei, and even they are frequently inlaid, though generally not as elaborately, plain bands being the most common (Plate LXXXVI, figs. 3 to 7). Both wood and soapstone pipes frequently have fitted on to the stem a carved end of another substance, horn, bone, or lead, into which the mouthpiece is inserted (Plate XCVIII, figs. 5, a and 6, a). In Basutoland there was common until quite recently a true corn- cob pipe, for which a portion of a dry meahe cob was rubbed down and hollowed out for the bowl, and a thin reed stuck in the side near the. Text-fig. 2.—, 35: 123. Basuto corn-cob pipe. bottom for the stem. It would be interesting to know how the the inspiration came (text-fig. 2). Another type of tobacco-pipe which really belongs north of the Zambesi, but overlaps slightly, is one with a large black earthenware bowl, to which is fitted a very long bamboo stem. South of the Zambesi it is found among the Batonga in the north-west of Southern Ehodesia (Plate XCIX, figs. 1 and 2). The Mampukushu have a pipe which consists of an earthen bowl which may be smoked with or without a bamboo stem (Plate XCIX, fig. 4), and it is reported that the Matabele and those of the Bathonga just in the vicinity of Lourengo Marques used a similar pipe, which among the latter was smoked only by old women and dandified young men. The Ovambo use a fairly elaborate type of black earthenware pipe-bowl similar to those figured on Plate XCIX, figs. 6 and 7. They are fitted with a wooden or iron stem, twelve to fourteen inches long. The examples figured are attributed to the Herero, and though I can find no reference to them in the literature, the Herero are known to have obtained pipes from the Ovambo. All adults and even small children smoke tobacco when they can get it. The Bushmen prefer it to any oth
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