Nyamwezi
- proper noun
- Tabora, the former Unyanyembe, located in the heart of the Nyamwezi region, at that time was an important base for the Swahili Arabs on their trade route into the Eastern Congo.
Examples
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Among the masks from Tanzania displayed in the exhibition are examples from the Zaramo, Hehe, Nyamwezi, Gogo, and Kerewe.
Academic text (1999) -
Later in the interview, however, Fundi Mdawalo indicated that his father's knowledge of this craft came from Tabora, in the center of Nyamwezi country, rather than Dodoma, in Gogo territory.
Academic text (2004) -
In the distribution shown in Table 2, Nyamwezi (4) was, for the same reason, placed half in the third and half in the fourth quadrant.
Academic text (1990) -
He also observed about his own work that "I began to make pictures of German and English askari soldiers, police into pictures," which conjures up images of the figures illustrated in Blohm's volume on the Nyamwezi.
Academic text (2004) -
Stylistically related to the Nyamwezi stools, the rendering of the figure embracing the back differs from the former through the curved torso.
Academic text (2005) -
In conception, it is as radically abstract as the famous elongated Nyamwezi staff in the collection of Willy Mestach in Brussels (Maurer 1991:98).
Academic text (1999) -
The Nyamwezi are known for their rich cultural heritage and traditional crafts.
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Many Nyamwezi people participate in agriculture and trade in their region.
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The Nyamwezi language is one of the many Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania.
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Etymology
Nyamwezi comes from Swahili and is often said to mean 'people of the moon', from mwezi 'moon'. So the Nyamwezi are the ethnic group known as the 'moon people' who live in central Tanzania.
