Mashona
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The great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes' white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Samuel Songo, a Mashona tribesman of Southern Rhodesia, has a left arm that is like a magnificent piece of ebony sculpture.
From Time Magazine Archive
With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Mashona god was formerly bound to render an annual tribute to the king of the Matabele in the shape of four black oxen and one dance.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
Shortly after followed the sharp, dissonant yells of the Mashonas from their hut, fifty yards distant.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
Afterwards I found these to be native mats made by the Mashonas.
From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia
Some forty miles beyond Gwelo there is a mountain called Iron Mine Hill, where the Mashonas have for generations been wont to find and work iron.
From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
There was a sound of firing at the little tree; and the cry went round the camp, "The Mashonas are releasing the spy!"
From Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Schreiner, Olive
The funny thing is that this fellow is really the god of the Mashonas, yet the Matabele put absolute faith in him.
From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia
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