The Kusasis-A Short Histroy (2)

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of the general work to do. I~ other words at the time
we first came upon them the [usasia had only got as tar
as the patriarchal stage of evolution.
Under suah an organization orimes against the
communi ty were rar'o..
Chiefs, as we know them now did not existi., and what
authori ty there waf t
was vested in the head of each
family.
The pr~t.ly class, known as Tindanas (Landmasters)
had authority in so far as the welfare of the land and
the orops were oonoerned, but they_had no judicial
funotions. whatsoever.
Three at least ot these Tindanas
were very important people in the old days.
They were
Gumbonaba, KUS4naba and Kalensinaba.
Zawganaba was
perhaps as important as any of them, but as he lives on
the French side of the Frontier it is difficult to find
out much about him, espeoially as he denies ever having
had anything to do with the Na of 1iamprilllsi.
The word
"-Naba n in 1ioshi means the same. as ItSarld" in Rausa, which
is. Chie!, and is just about as haokneyed.
There are the
Chiefa of the horses, of the young men, of the ootton
treea, of war J
and of the fetishes.. as well as many others.
Thus- to hear a person adressed as IrHaba"' may mean that