. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOME NGUNI CRAFTS: THE USES OF HORN, BONE AND IVORY 135 is attached to the ends so that it can be worn around the neck. The term given for this snuff-box is uhlanga, which usually means a reed or reed snuff-box. It seems that the term was adopted through association of function. Zuhdand, Msinga area, Drakensberg area No information was recorded. SNUFF-SPOONS Terms: intshengula—snxxf^-s^oon (of bone or horn); iiitshasa—hone snuff-spoon (Doke & Vilakazi 1964). Zululand Bone snuff-spoons attracted t
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOME NGUNI CRAFTS: THE USES OF HORN, BONE AND IVORY 135 is attached to the ends so that it can be worn around the neck. The term given for this snuff-box is uhlanga, which usually means a reed or reed snuff-box. It seems that the term was adopted through association of function. Zuhdand, Msinga area, Drakensberg area No information was recorded. SNUFF-SPOONS Terms: intshengula—snxxf^-s^oon (of bone or horn); iiitshasa—hone snuff-spoon (Doke & Vilakazi 1964). Zululand Bone snuff-spoons attracted the attention of a number of observers in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, in Zululand (Norbury 1880: 11; Krantz 1880: 64; Mayr 1907: 469; Mason 1968: 229-230). Grout (1862: 108), describing the practice of snuff-taking, remarked on the spoon 'with which the native is to convey his snuff . . from the hollow of his hand to his nostrils. This is made of ivory or bone and carried sometimes in the ear, and sometimes stuck in the hair or under the head-ring, for which the three or four-tined handle is well fitted.' Mayr (1907: 469) sketched a bone snuff-spoon with pointed handle which was also used in hairdressing and 'to wipe away the perspiration on the forehead'. Among the museum specimens examined are examples with straight handles and almond-shaped bowls (DC 1810, Zululand, 1906; SAM-6734, Zululand, nineteenth century); spatulate-shaped spoons with tapering handles (Fig. 48) or handles which flange at the end (NAS ) and those with forked, comb-like handles (Fig. 49).. Fig. 48. Bone snuff-spoon (Type 2a) Zululand, late nineteenth century, SAM-6735. Incised geometric designs, blackened with a mixture of fat and ash, have been carved on a number of specimens, often on the neck or on the underside of the handle. One example (SAM-6734) has a small decorative band of wire- binding on the handle as well as incised cross-hatching on the underside of the neck.
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