clanswomen

Junod, for instance, contrasted the epigastric tinhlanga of two young women belonging to the Nkuna clan in Shiluvane (Transvaal) in 1900 with those of two young Tembe clanswomen from a rural village outside Lourenço Marques in 1926.

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

The attention given to the new mother by her matrilineage foregrounds the importance of children to the maintenance of clan and lineage in matrilineal societies. 22 Fittingly, the women involved in this were those clanswomen who had given birth to the young women themselves and guided them through later female initiation instruction, which itself aimed above all at securing fertility, a topic we will return to later in the chapter.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

I enjoyed Geilie's company immensely; she had a wry-tongued, cynical viewpoint that was a refreshing contrast to the sweet, shy clanswomen at the castle, and clearly she had been well educated, for a woman in a small village.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

All clanswomen were practised with the bow and Deva had the reputation of being better than most.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

The count could deal with the unruly among the Pougoi should any protest at seeing one of their clanswomen sold away from the valley.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

Fallow after harvest, the fields of Felwaithe showed a herringbone stubble of cut corn; hill clanswomen beat clothes in the spume of Cael's Falls, and leather-clad herders drove weanling foals to Dun-moreland pastures.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

But these are all kinsfolk, as well as clansmen and clanswomen, and I, their Chief, shall be there.

The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

They were cool and quiet; much more so, indeed, than the respective clansmen and clanswomen.

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

The next day we took a beautiful walk to the territory and near the residence of Lochiel, through a wood where groups of clansmen and clanswomen were barking trees that had been cut down; and the faggoting and piling the bark was as picturesque as heart could wish.

The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808