ABSTRACT
Ovimbundu women braid their hair neatly in strands across their foreheads, and decorate the braids with small blue and white trade b e a d s .^
MAIN FEA TU R ES OF ECONOMY
Main crops are maize and several kinds of beans. Subsidiary crops include: sorghum, kaffir corn, errmer wheat, manioc, peanuts, squash, sweet potatoes, garden vegetables, a little rice, cotton, sugar-cane and tobacco. Fruit-trees such as the papaya, banana, loquat, tangerine, lemon, peach and apple, are increasingly cultivated, and, to some extent, coffee. Upland fields for the principal crops of maize and beans are cultivated during the rainy season, and, to piece out the harvest, river gardens for secondary crops are used in the dry season.
