| Title: | Iron workers of UFIPA |
| Author: | Wembah-Rashid, J.A.R |
| Year: | 1969 |
| Periodical: | Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Pages: | 65-72 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Abstract: | This article, based on original material collected during a demonstration of iron working performed at the Village Museum, National Museum of Tanzania in Dar-es-Salaam in 1967, is a condensed description of the fastly disappearing skill of Fipa iron working, and presents also background material for a discussion on the role of iron working in the social and political organization of the Fipa, as well as a comparative survey of the skill between Ufipa and its neighbourhood. |
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