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Chewa

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Chewa

Bantu-speaking people of eastern Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and Malawi. They practice shifting (slash-and-burn) agriculture and they hunt and fish. Slavery was once universal among the Chewa. Descent, inheritance, and succession are matrilineal and polygyny is general. Chewa settlements are governed by a hereditary headman and a council of elders.
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9) and by including objects such as the Chewa basketry antelope to question our conventional understanding of what a "mask" might be.
The Sainsbury African galleries at the British museum by Hudson, Julie / African Arts
In building the collections over the last decade, curators had sought to add contemporary objects, such as a Somali nomadic house; a Chewa antelope body mask from Malawi; children's wire toys from Congo, Ghana, Mali, and Rwanda; mudcloth textiles (Fig.
Reflections on "African voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum ... by Mason, Michael Atwood / African Arts
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