ABSTRACT
It is impossible to dogmatize about the typical Venda facial characteristics, as the constant absorption of other peoples that has taken place from very early times, particularly the intermixture during the last century with Sutho people, has resulted in a tribe of very varied appearance. It is impossible to dogmatize about the typical Venda facial characteristics, as the constant absorption of other peoples that has taken place from very early times, particularly the intermixture during the last century with Sutho people, has resulted in a tribe of very varied appearance. Soon after birth a string of wild cotton is tied around the baby's waist, ludedi, which serves as a belt. The BaVenda women do not wear a great variety of ornaments, being content with quantities of wire bracelets and anklets and strings of beads. The BaVenda are not great bead-workers and the common traders' beads are not so popular among them as they are among many other Bantu tribes.
