Snuff
Item
Title
Snuff
Description
This item relates to the practice of snuff taking in Tswana culture, and the objects in Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust's collections relating to snuff.
SL 29:09
nakana which means a small horn
SL 29:24
See, the original material for making snuff boxes was a horn, cut it at the end - a cows horn and like I was saying nakana means a small or baby horn.
JM 29:40
But this one's ivory. Yeah.
SL 29:42
So now later on any snuff container would be described as nakana and even even if it's some plastic that contains some ointment that you bought from the from the pharmacy. You still will still use the same term to describe it.
SL 31:41
later in the years when people were using like plastic containers now as their snuff boxes. No snuff consumer would love to have a Nakana made out of plastic which is like transparent. They always like to be the opaque one because they say It doesn't show how much snuff you have. So if someone is asking for [some snuff, you say] it's just empty no definitely like that, but if it's transparent we'll see how much snuff you have. She's
WT 32:15
People who never used to like buying for themselves. They'll just say oh can you 'kgeipile' meaning ... what is 'kgeipa'? [SL: You are craving] Can you...you give them and later [they say it again]...you know so that's why they wanted to conceal the amount that they had because you can't be supporting this guy everyday.
SL 32:45
When I was growing up it was it was a granny and granddad thing. Okay old people, okay and they will be the ones hitting those grinding stones and dealing with those and even knowing which wood to use, they'll favour the likes of mopane [Matsuri] to put all the ashes to get to their snuff. Nowadays snuff is sold ready made in a shop... the yellow plastic containers. It it's divas who are doing it man. It's like young beautiful ladies and that they have all kinds of reasons
GK 33:27
claim to [lower] blood pressure.
SL 33:38
you see a lady going for her handbag and then taking out the makeup kit and then checking No, no it's not and then she goes it fishes out her snuff container.
WT 33:49
And then this lecturer has taken the covers for the snuff the green things and its there in the earrings. The earrings are like that. The green cover for the snuff
WT 34:08
They've just been pricked and and they've hooked and it's earrings.
GK 34:11
OK So they do take snuff
WT 34:14
I think they do, but they're even appreciating that so much that even put it into in the earrings
SL 34:21
I saw a ... show on YouTube, in Europe and they were using a ram's horn as a snuff container. So they have nakana too!
[Transcription by KL of MAC_BB_20190806_NS2 JM, NS interview with GK, SL, WT 2019]
nakana which means a small horn
SL 29:24
See, the original material for making snuff boxes was a horn, cut it at the end - a cows horn and like I was saying nakana means a small or baby horn.
JM 29:40
But this one's ivory. Yeah.
SL 29:42
So now later on any snuff container would be described as nakana and even even if it's some plastic that contains some ointment that you bought from the from the pharmacy. You still will still use the same term to describe it.
SL 31:41
later in the years when people were using like plastic containers now as their snuff boxes. No snuff consumer would love to have a Nakana made out of plastic which is like transparent. They always like to be the opaque one because they say It doesn't show how much snuff you have. So if someone is asking for [some snuff, you say] it's just empty no definitely like that, but if it's transparent we'll see how much snuff you have. She's
WT 32:15
People who never used to like buying for themselves. They'll just say oh can you 'kgeipile' meaning ... what is 'kgeipa'? [SL: You are craving] Can you...you give them and later [they say it again]...you know so that's why they wanted to conceal the amount that they had because you can't be supporting this guy everyday.
SL 32:45
When I was growing up it was it was a granny and granddad thing. Okay old people, okay and they will be the ones hitting those grinding stones and dealing with those and even knowing which wood to use, they'll favour the likes of mopane [Matsuri] to put all the ashes to get to their snuff. Nowadays snuff is sold ready made in a shop... the yellow plastic containers. It it's divas who are doing it man. It's like young beautiful ladies and that they have all kinds of reasons
GK 33:27
claim to [lower] blood pressure.
SL 33:38
you see a lady going for her handbag and then taking out the makeup kit and then checking No, no it's not and then she goes it fishes out her snuff container.
WT 33:49
And then this lecturer has taken the covers for the snuff the green things and its there in the earrings. The earrings are like that. The green cover for the snuff
WT 34:08
They've just been pricked and and they've hooked and it's earrings.
GK 34:11
OK So they do take snuff
WT 34:14
I think they do, but they're even appreciating that so much that even put it into in the earrings
SL 34:21
I saw a ... show on YouTube, in Europe and they were using a ram's horn as a snuff container. So they have nakana too!
[Transcription by KL of MAC_BB_20190806_NS2 JM, NS interview with GK, SL, WT 2019]
