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Workaday Equipment of Watutu Woman

WORKADAY EQUIPMENT OF WATUTU WOMAN


Typical wayfarer with knapsack and staff, every appearance testifies to her being of a vagrant race. Her tribesmen, now settled in the country south-east of Lake Tanganyika, are descendents of the Angoni, an allied Kaffir clan, who fled from South Africa a century ago to escape Zulu tyranny. The axe slung across her shoulder is no empty ornament, her sturdy arms can wield it with workmanlike efficiency