Plainsman Ancestor Houses

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

Ferngardens, Fernroot and Fiddleheads

Ferngardens are the areas within the ditches of a Plainsman koppie that are given over to wild ferns, both for the pasturage of aquar, and the harvesting of starchy fernroot and the delicate new fern leaves, fiddleheads

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