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The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)

Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 198

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-knot : to the cords of which it is composed are attached hoofs of the antelope, which, in the dance, make a noise resembling that of castanets. A little lower down are some ear-rings, an ivory bracelet — the symbol of power — and a kind of cockade of glass beads, which is worn round the neck. At… … PERSONAL ORNAMENTS.

Sotho (African people)

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