ABSTRACT
The main body of material concerning the Ila was gathered by Smith and Dale during the first 20 years of this century.1 Brief additional notes based on subsequent visits to the Ila have been published since the end of the Second World War.2 The ethnographic value of the material on the Ila is undoubted, but its contemporary sociological significance is necessarily limited in view of the great changes that have occurred in Northern Rhodesia since the beginning of the century.
