LANGUAGE OF COLOURS AMOXGST THE ZULUS. 159 



Language of Colours amongst the Zulus expressed 

 by their Bead-work Ornaments; and some 

 General Notes on their Personal Adornments 

 and Clothing. 



By 

 Rev. Father Fraiiz rHavr. 



With Plate XXYII. 



At tlie suggestion of Dr. Warren^ Director of the Natal 

 Grovernment Museum^ I propose to place before the reader a 

 few notes on the personal ornaments used by Zulus, especially 

 with reference to the meanings assigned to the variously 

 coloured beads which are so generally used in certain of their 

 adornments. 



Before speaking of the bead-work ornaments, now very 

 freely used by the Zulus in adorning their dusky bodies, it 

 will be interesting to indicate the kind of ornaments that 

 were formerly used before the advent of beads. 



I. 



Previous to the arrival of the white man nature supplied 

 the Zulu w^ith the materials for the following articles of 

 ornament : 



(1) For adorning the head the Zulu man uses the well- 

 known head-ring (isicoco). Sewing fibre (uzi), obtained 

 from the bast of the wild fig and certain other trees, is 

 twisted to form a circlet, which is sewn into the woolly hair. 



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