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...that point, the coronation ceremony was still incomplete, since it signified primarily a title conferred by the white government. To complete the crowning in their own way, the Zulus held another celebration, attended by 50,000 tribesmen and only two whites -a government administrator and an expert on their history and culture. For that weekend-long occasion, 105 oxen, 50 antelopes, seven buffaloes and 20 wildebeests were slaughtered and eaten, washed down with thousands of gallons of tshwala, a native beer...
Until last week, it was known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the name that the former Belgian Congo took when it won independence from Brussels in 1960. To the present government in Kinshasa, however, the name unduly celebrated the Bakongo tribesmen who reside along the lower reaches of the Congo River. Seeking a name to please the non-Bakongo majority, Kinshasa last week officially rechristened the country the Zaire Republic, and the river the Zaire River. Originally, the word was the result of misunderstanding-or mispronunciation -on the part of a Portuguese naval captain, Diogo...
Epidemic Smallpox. That advice, the Tasaday believe, is based on knowledge that is transmitted by their ancestors. In their dreams, the tribesmen may see the sugoy, their deceased "soul relatives," who live in fine dwellings among the treetops, as well as Salungal, "the owner of the mountains," who tells them where to search for palm pith and game animals...
...existence of the Tasaday, as the tribesmen call themselves, came to light after a trapper named Dafal reported that he had encountered a mysterious people on his hunting trips into the hinterland. Philippine officials checked out the rumor via helicopter and found a group of short, brown-skinned tribesmen wearing only loincloths...
...tribesmen also have no metal technology, no domestic animals and no permanent dwellings. Though situated on an island, they live in a mountainous, thickly wooded area of rain forest, have never seen the sea and have no word for it in their strange Malayo-Polynesian language...