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ZULU BUILDERS AT WORK UPON AN ELIGIBLE FAMILY RESIDENCE
| Zulu huts are of the beehive type of architecture. The framework consists of flexible branches or saplings set firmly in the ground and bent over to form hoops, increasing in height to the middle of the hut. These are interlaced with withes horizontally, and the whole is thatched with leaves or grasses. The only aperture is a low archway through which the occupants pass on hands and knees |
PUNCTILIOUS RELIGIOUS AVOIDANCE OF A MOTHER-IN-LAW
| "Hlonipa" is the name given to a remarkable custom prevailing among the Zulus whereby a man carefully avoids meeting his wife's mother, and if he comes across her unexpectedly hides his face until he has passed her. Similarly a woman shuns both her husband's parents, and, further, must not utter their names. The custom originated in the system of taboo, found all over the world |