Zaramo Mwana Hiti Wood Comb Tanzania

Beautiful wooden comb with hand-etched carvings is a wonderful addition for your collection! The red-wood stain gives it richness and soft to the touch.

Zaramo are an east central Bantu peoples whose ancestors most likely immigrated into modern day Tanzania sometime during the first millennium A.D. Oral histories suggest that the Zaramo moved eastward into their current location from the mountainous Luguru and Kutu areas around the turn of the 18th century. Linguistic evidence supports this history. Trade and slave caravans in the 18th century passed through Zaramo territory on their way to Lake Tanganyika, bringing Islam along with them. As Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, has grown exponentially in the last twenty years many Zaramo settlements have been incorporated into the city, and many more Zaramo people have immigrated into the city in search of work.

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