Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; (1908) (14583722878)

Barotse basket-makers
Identifier: womenofallnation01joyc (find matches)
Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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Makololo—a Suto tribe who came from thesouth and conquered the Barotseabout 1830—to accountfor the existence of aninstitution new to them.For we find that women chiefs arenot at all uncommon among thetribes north and east of theBarotse. Livingstone mentionsseveral whom he saw, or heard of,in his travels. We may rememberthe Londa chieftainess Manenko,who, with her husband and suite,escorted him, when on his wayfrom Linyanti to Loanda, to thetown of her uncle Shinte. Therewas also Nyango, who seems tohave been at one time lady para-mount of the tribes on the UpperShire ; and the chief near LakeMweru, who goes by the hereditaryname of Kazembe, is also a woman. AtShintes village, Livingstone says : Thiswas the first town I had ever seen femalespresent in a public assembly. In the souththe women are not permitted to enter thekotla, and even when invited to come to areligious service they would not enter untilordered to do so by the chief ; but herethey expressed approbation by clapping
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BAROTSE Z^ iSt lateM. Cmllard: byperinissioit c/Chc Sftrftaryo/the Barotsclaud Mission. BASKET-MAKERS. SOUTH AND SOUTH-WEST AFRICA 305 their hands, and laughing, to differentspeakers; and Shinte frequently turnedround and spoke to them. East of the Barotse, the Babemba andBawisa tribes need not detain us at pre-sent. South of these, along the course ofthe Zambezi, come the Batonga (Batoka) Salkats ), quarrelled with King Tshaka,and, flying for his life, founded a kingdomof his own in tlie north. Another detach-ment of Zulu left their country about thesame time, and for a similar reason, underZwangendaba, the same whom Zwidewished to attack, as already related, andwas dissuaded by his mother. They crossed