Author: Bigalke, E.H.
Title: Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums. Volume 9. Part 9. The Exploitation of Shellfish By Coastal Tribesmen of the Transkei.
Description: Cape Provincial Museums, Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Natural History. Volume 9. Part 9. 13th December 1973. Printed wraps, Stapled, p.159-p.175, 184mm wide x 240mm high. New unread copy. The consumption of shellfish by non-Bantu groups who lived along the south and south-east coast of South Africa has been extensively documented in archaeological literature. Traveller's accounts and early ethnographic descriptions of the Bantu-speaking peoples of present-day Transkei and Ciskei with few exceptions stress the absence of a tradition of fishing, often ascribing it to a prohibition against eating fish. The study fills a gap in the ethnography of the Southern Nguni living in the coastal districts of the Transkei.

Keywords: east london museum albany museum grahamstown eastern cape cape provincial museum south southern africa african transkei nguni shellfish fishing xhosa bomvana mpondo anthropology diet


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