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The Sacred Ancestral Fire at Center of Homestead | Damaraland and Kaokoland - Namibia (IMG_4109.jpg)

The Sacred Ancestral Fire at Center of Homestead

Sons live with their father's clan, and when daughters marry, they go to live with the clan of their husband. However, inheritance of wealth does not follow the patriclan but is determined by the matriclan, that is, a son does not inherit his father's cattle but his maternal uncle's instead.
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