Ambo Kraals
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Walton, James, 1911-1999
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Drawing of the Ambo kraals, depicting detail of the Kuanyama kraal, after Loeb (a cattle kraal, cattle entrances, an entrance space, a main entrance, stamping ground, a main entrance passage, 3 boys' sleeping huts, an ox kraal, a guard's hut, 6 granaries, a cooking place, other wive's quarters, a store, a hut for girl visitors, a hut for women visitors, a bride's sitting place, the kraal head's quarters, a brewery, a creamery, the 1st wife's quarters, a cow kraal, calves, the 2nd wife's quarters, seats, 2 shelter, a meeting place, a sacred fire place and the first wife's bedroom), the Kuanyama kraal, after Delachaux and Thiebaud (a cattle entrance, oxen, calves, a sacrificial reception room, the kraal head's quarters, 2 creameries, hut of children, hut of 2nd wife, huts of 1st wife, a main passage, huts of 1st wife, a meeting place with an altar for ox skulls, a dairy, stamping ground and a main entrance) and King Uejulu's kraal (1900 A.D.), after Brinker (a council place, the king's quarters, a shelter for playing the Mankala game, a cattle entrance passage, a stamping place passage, a cattle entrance, a stamping place, a main passage, a main entrance, the chief's passage, the guard's huts, a little entrance, a little entrance passage, cows, calves, oxen, a herd's hut, a cooking place for boys, a beer drinking place, a meeting place and a place for women.
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