... smoking is generally becoming less popular. Pipe-makers supplement their income by making wooden spoons and yokes for oxen and mending ... pipes are carried by diviners as a symbol of. Ubungcibi kwaXhosa 143 — Ceremonial Crafts.
... the bag the woman carries her supply of dried home - grown tobacco leaves ; . her pipe with a foot long stem and a three inch high bowl ; . . . a tin of snuff . p . 37 • Xhosa : smoking , tobacco ' Smoking is part of the social life of the ...
... traditional Xhosa culture - look out for traditionally dressed women smoking their trademark long - stemmed pipes – and as the birthplace of former presidents Nelson Mandela , Thabo Mbeki and many other ANC luminaries . The main road ...
... Smoking . Xhosa of both sexes are inveterate smokers , often starting in early adolescence ( Report of the ... pipes are used by both males and females and they are familiar sights in the Transkei and Ciskei . Smoking is part of ...
... attempting to make contact with their ancestors . ABOVE It is usually the older , married Xhosa women who smoke the long traditional pipes so distinctive of their culture . ABOVE Xhosa men , traditionally the hunters , warriors and.
... pipes of clay , though these are so short , that the bowl of the pipe comes into contact with their lips.341 They ... smoking , they stretch their mouths over the wide end of the horn , and draw in a few large whiffs . The smoke ...
... traditional attire. There were Xhosa women wearing ncebetha, the small blanket used as a bra and adorned with beads ... smoking the decorated clay pipe known as umbheka phesheya. A married Venda woman walked past in her gwana, a ...
... women , although the former more so than the latter ... pipes in Xhosa society may be illustrated by the metaphor used when someone ... traditional dress of the Xhosa 22 Xhosa : A cultural grammar for beginners 5 The sharing of tobacco.
Vera Rubin. The hunters used the water - pipe , one of the older forms of use , which may have diffused from Persia ... smoking is described by Theal ( 1910 ) . The question will remain whether the smoking of dagga was introduced ...
A Guide to Stepping Up Your Xhosa Game Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka. nothing funny about it. My maternal grandmother, Makhulu, was iqabakazi. She dipped her mibhaco in yellow or red clay. Makhulu also had umbheka-phesheya, the long smoking pipe ...