. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 142 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Bomvana Tshomane chiefs wore ivory arm-rings (Hubberly 1953: 82). A Bomvana specimen from Elliotdale (NASKO 35/387) has become highly poHshed and golden in colour from wear. It was said to have been worn by a 'true man'. Mpondo Smith (1824: 281) stated that Mpondo men wore ivory arm-rings on the upper arm, and in the late nineteenth century Dunn collected an ivory arm-ring in Pondoland. It is of the narrower, thinner type (Fig. 54).. CM I r 1 1 Fig. 54. Mpondo i
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. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 142 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Bomvana Tshomane chiefs wore ivory arm-rings (Hubberly 1953: 82). A Bomvana specimen from Elliotdale (NASKO 35/387) has become highly poHshed and golden in colour from wear. It was said to have been worn by a 'true man'. Mpondo Smith (1824: 281) stated that Mpondo men wore ivory arm-rings on the upper arm, and in the late nineteenth century Dunn collected an ivory arm-ring in Pondoland. It is of the narrower, thinner type (Fig. 54).. CM I r 1 1 Fig. 54. Mpondo ivory arm-band, Pondoland, late nineteenth century, SAM-6952. Mpondomise, Mfengu, Hlubi, Bhaca, Xesibe No information on ivory ornaments was recorded. SNUFF-SPOONS Term: intshaza — snu^-spoon, Mpondo (Shaw & Van Warmelo 1972 MS.). General Ivory snuff-spoons were mentioned by a number of nineteenth-century writers (Fleming 1856: 204; Kretzschmar 1853: 239-240; Fritsch 1872: 68) but no further details were recorded and no ivory snuff-spoons were seen in museum collections. This might be explained by the fact that ivory was rare, but it is also possible that polished bone was mistaken for ivory and that most of the 'ivory' snuff-spoons were in fact bone. Xhosa According to Kropf (1889: 103) the Xhosa used ivory snuff-spoons. Thembu Kay (1833: 290) noted ivory snuff-spoons in use among the Thembu.. 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 work.. South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum