Plainsman Ancestor Houses

Ricardo on 16th May 2022

an ancestor house © Mark Harrison

Every Plainsman tribe has an Ancestor House built into or on the rocks of its koppie. An Ancestor House is built from the bones of the dead of a tribe. For a tribe, its Ancestor House is its most sacred space. It is within an Ancestor House that the Elders of a tribe meet in Assembly

Plainsman Elders

Ricardo on 25th April 2022

Among the Plainsmen, everyone above a certain age is elevated to becoming a tribal Elder. As a sign of this, they will begin to wear a tribe’s salt wealth as beads in their hair and as other ornaments about their persons. To determine tribal matters, Elders meet in an Assembly, most often in their tribe’s Ancestor House

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