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Appendix C: Images - new set of National Orders for South Africa

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Uniforms of the Zulu Regiments, 1824	Sacred drums of the Bapedi	Crane-wing headdress of the Xhosa warrior
Traditional dress of a Tswana Chief	V-shaped breastplate and unusually shaped shield of the Southern Sotho, and ostrich feather in the headdress	Portrait of Shaka, 1824, with crane feather in his hair. (The Roots of Black South Africa, David Hammond-Tooke, p74)
20th Century headdress of a married Zulu woman	Lydenberg Heads	Woltemade Award
Order of the Southern Cross	Order for Meritorious Service	Order of Good Hope
Order of the Star of SA	Ornaments of the Southern Nguni (Note the umxhaga armband)	The Coil - a sacred grass ring (inKatha) used by the Bhaca people
Bone waist ornaments of the Tswana, possibly 19th Century	Mapungubwe Rhinoceros	Northern Sotho ostrich plumed battle staff
Ngoma drums of the Venda	Tswana and Ndebele warriors	Cancer Bush - flower
Cancer Bush - pod	Pearl Millet	Bitter Aloe
Mopani Tree	Mopani Tree leaf	Resurrection Plant
Devils Claw	Poison Bulb

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