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Turtle had named Ruben "Chopi" Fregoso as the shooter but acted evasive when questioned in court, Thompson said.

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Significantly, the range of vessel forms Earthy identifies virtually mirrors not only the "Iron Age" pottery of the southeastern lowlands, but the vessels described and pictured in accounts from the 1960s and 1970s for a somewhat narrower area whose inhabitants include people of Tsonga, Chopi, Venda, Lemba, and Sotho origin.

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

For example, women who traced their clan origins to places that had suffered from intense Gaza raiding in the late nineteenth centuryHlengweni, Musapa (the Ndau region north of the Save River), Chopi territory along the coast north of Xai Xairecalled that their ancestors had "fled" their homeland because of a "war" (nyimpi), but whose war, and why people were fighting, they usually could not say.

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

Because of the widespread occurrence of the nxurhana in eastern Gaza province in the 1920s, and because Chopi and Lenge women told her that it represented either the ntete grasshopper, the forelegs of a khongoloti (millipede), or a species of lizard, E. Dora Earthy concluded that this tattoo more than any other carried ancient "vestiges of totemism."

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

During her first visit back to Manhiça, still before she was married, Elena watched her "granddaughter" making a kalangu, a type of clay vessel that, she says, N'waMusakaza learned from the "VaNhambane" (people of Inhambane, a predominantly Chopi region) and was unknown in Xihlahla at that time.

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

Dias, writing on Chopi pottery near Manjacaze (Gaza) in 1960, described clay as "the property of the regulado" and "rigorously prohibited" to anyone who did not "belong" to the chieftaincy 50a situation starkly different from that reported by Earthy and probably a reflection of mounting tensions related to late colonial chiefly government and land politics.

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

A.C. Lawton, whose regional survey from 1967 draws on older published literature as well as field investigation, expressed surprise about the degree to which the pottery of Tsonga and Chopi women in particular had remained "unchanged" despite Nguni conquest and the introduction of "vast quantities of pottery made in Portuguese-owned factories [and] available at very low prices" across southern Mozambique.

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

Simultaneously deploying multiple identities, multiple vocations, multiple languages (Shangaan, Ndau, Zulu, Chopi), multiple medical epistemologies, multiple systems of authority, and multiple interpretations of patrilineal kinship and marriage, the female vanyamusoro of Magudea district renowned for its mediums 27deserve a book-length historical analysis of their own.

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

Robert, I have no problem with that as long as Chopi comes into this country legally.

A Very Brief Primer in Immigration History Pt.2 2007