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  • Even so, women's pots still speak of the more expansive landscapes of their pasts, for the tinhlanga carefully carved onto the Xihluku potters 'makhuwana bear a striking resemblance to designs found on similarly shaped vessels from "long ago" and far awayElena's on remnants unearthed at the site of the tenth-century Khosa village at Massingir and on a "Tswa" pot from Inhambane, found in South Africa in the 1960s; Julia's on remnants from the other two, allegedly Sotho Massingir sites, and on modern as well as ancient Phalaborwa pots photographed by researchers in the early 1970s.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • The area around Maputo city is identified as Ronga, and all of Inhambane province except the southern coastal area (predominantly Chopi) is identified as Tswa.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

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